Publications

Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014-04-22; 63.15: 1542-55.

Genetic implication of a novel thiamine transporter in human hypertension

Zhang K, Huentelman MJ, Rao F, Sun EI, Corneveaux JJ, Schork AJ, Wei Z, Waalen J, Miramontes-Gonzalez JP, Hightower CM, Maihofer AX, Mahata M, Pastinen T, Ehret GB, International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies, Schork NJ, Eskin E, Nievergelt CM, Saier MH, O'Connor DT

PMID: 24509276

Abstract

This study coupled 2 strategies-trait extremes and genome-wide pooling-to discover a novel blood pressure (BP) locus that encodes a previously uncharacterized thiamine transporter.

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