A Growing Chain of Evidence Linking Genetic Variation in Angiotensinogen with Essential Hypertension: Focus on "a Haplotype of Human Angiotensinogen Gene Containing -217A Increases Blood Pressure in Transgenic Mice Compared with -217G," by Jain Et Al

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Journal Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol

Publisher American Physiological Society

Specialty Physiology

Date 2008 Oct 31

PMID 18971347

Authors

Curt D Sigmund

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