Key result
ADD1 Gly460Trp polymorphism evaluated for association with essential hypertension risk across conflicting studies.
Why the study?
Does the ADD1 Gly460Trp polymorphism increase the risk of essential hypertension?
Does the ADD1 Gly460Trp polymorphism increase the risk of essential hypertension?
The T allele of the ADD1 gene is associated with increased susceptibility to essential hypertension in populations of Asian descent.
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May inform ancestry-specific hypertension risk assessment; extends candidate-gene meta-analyses but remains hypothesis-generating.
Background Results regarding the association between a-adducin (ADD1) gene and essential hypertension (EH) risk remain inconsistent. Therefore, we per...
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A 2015 study studied this question. The alpha-adducin (ADD1) gene was evaluated for its association with essential hypertension risk to clarify inconsistent prior findings.
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