Publications
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.