title: Angiotensin II type 2 receptor gene polymorphisms and essential hypertension.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the genetic variants of angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R) gene in a Chinese population and to determine whether the AT2R gene polymorphisms are associated with essential hypertension (EH).
  
  
  METHODS
  The detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was performed in 19 subjects by a direct DNA sequencing. Two hundred fifty patients with EH and 250 nomortensive controls were included in the study to assess the contribution of polymorphism of AT2R gene to hypertension.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We identified 9 SNPs in the promoter, intron, exons and 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) of AT2R gene; among them 5 SNPs were novel molecular variants. A case-control study using a most frequent SNP (1334T/C) in the promoter region, showed a significant increase in allele frequency of C1334 in male hypertensive subjects (17.5 % vs 10.3 % for normotensive subjects, P<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The catalogue of SNPs of AT2R gene in Chinese population showed ethnic difference in DNA sequence variation. A polymorphism in the promoter region (1334T/C) of AT2R gene might be involved in the development of hypertension in Chinese population.
authors: Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors: Yi
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Kui-Xing
authors: KX
authors: Zhang
authors: Gu-Liang
authors: GL
authors: Wang
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Huang
authors: Ding-Liang
authors: DL
authors: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D044139:Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D044139:Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2