Haplotype association analysis of AGT variants with hypertension-related traits: The HyperGEN study

Human Heredity

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 164-176

  Gu, C Charles ^a   Chang, Yen Pei C ^c   Hunt, Steven C ^b   Schwander, Karen ^a   Arnett, Donna ^d   Djousse, Luc ^e   Heiss, Gerardo ^f   Oberman, Al ^g   Lalouel, Jean Marc ^b   Province, Mike ^a   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^c   Rao, D C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f IL   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

AGT; Blood pressure reactivity; BMI; Genetic interaction; Haplotype analysis; Hypertension; Intermediate phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAND GRIP; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHENOTYPE; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 31144441123     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090118     Document Type: Article

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