title: [Association of polymorphism in 5'-regulatory region of angiotensinogen gene with essential hypertension].
abstract: The association of the variant in the 5'-regulatory region of angiotensinogen gene with primary hypertension in the Han Nationality in China was studied by applying PCR-SSCP analysis and DNA cycle sequencing. The frequencies of three identified SSCP-patterns (pattern-A, B, C) in 73 hypertensive subjects were compared with those in 74 normal controls. It was found that the number of pattern-C was higher in the study group (5/73) than in the controls (1/74). The results of DNA sequencing showed that the difference of three SSCP-patterns was caused by a nucleotide substitution G-->A at -216 locus in the 5'-upstream region of angiotensinogen gene, and the subjects with pattern-C were homozygous for mutant A-allele (genotype A/A). These results suggest that the identified gene variant may be associated with primary hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, CAMS, Beijing.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000808:Angiotensinogen / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree; D017354:Point Mutation; D018807:Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D000808:Angiotensinogen