Population
Affected relative pairs in 46 extended families of Mexican Americans chosen at random from a low-income…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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No immediate clinical implications; extends linkage evidence to angiotensinogen in Mexican Americans but leaves variant roles and utility open.
This study supports the linkage of essential hypertension to the angiotensinogen locus in Mexican Americans, particularly for the GT repeat polymorphism, but does not indicate a specific role for the M235T variant.
Atwood et al. (1997) studied this question.
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