REN, renin, 5972

N. diseases: 721; N. variants: 25
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0264639
Disease: High-renin essential hypertension
High-renin essential hypertension
0.010 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of the study was to investigate allele and genotype frequencies of the -344C/T polymorphism, located in the promoter region of the aldosterone synthase gene, in 83 patients with idiopathic low renin hypertension characterized by an increased aldosterone to renin ratio, including both patients with low renin essential hypertension (n=53) and subjects with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (n=30), compared with 78 patients with normal to high renin essential hypertension and 126 normotensive control subjects. 11587161 2001