Urotensin-II System in Genetic Control of Blood Pressure and Renal Function

Urotensin-II controls ion/water homeostasis in fish and vascular tone in rodents. We hypothesised that common genetic variants in urotensin-II pathway genes are associated with human blood pressure or renal function. We performed family-based analysis of association between blood pressure, glomerula...

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Main Authors: Debiec, Radoslaw, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Denniff, Matthew, Bloomer, Lisa D., Bogdanski, Pawel, Wojnar, Lukasz, Musialik, Katarzyna, Charchar, Fadi J., Thompson, John R., Waterworth, Dawn, Song, Kijoung, Vollenweider, Peter, Waeber, Gerard, Zukowska-Szczechowska, Ewa, Samani, Nilesh J., Lambert, David, Tomaszewski, Maciej
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877024/