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Association of ACE, FABP2 and GST genes polymorphism with essential hypertension risk among a North Indian population

Shania Abbas, Syed Tasleem Raza, Anu Chandra, Saliha Rizvi, Faisal Ahmed, Ale Eba, Farzana Mahdi

Annals of Human Biology · 2014 · 30 citations · 50 references

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Abstract

It is concluded that ACE (rs 4646994), FABP2 (rs1799883) and GST (GSTM1 null or positive genotype and GSTT1 null or positive genotype) genes polymorphism are associated with HTN. Further investigation with a larger sample size may be required to validate this study.

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