α1A-Adrenergic receptor polymorphism
Xie H, Kim R, Stein C, Gainer J, Brown N, Wood A. α1A-Adrenergic receptor polymorphism. Pharmacogenetics And Genomics 1999, 9: 651-656. PMID: 10591546, DOI: 10.1097/00008571-199910000-00012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAlpha1A-ARAfrican AmericansPrevalence of hypertensionPathogenesis of hypertensionAlpha1-adrenergic receptorsAlpha1-AR subtypesVascular smooth muscleCaucasian individualsEthnic differencesVasoconstrictor sensitivityVascular reactivityAlpha1-ARBlood pressureEssential hypertensionHypertensive individualsVascular responsesVascular toneReceptor polymorphismsSmooth muscleHypertensionSignificant intergenotypic differencesPotential roleRestriction fragment length polymorphismAllelic distributionFragment length polymorphismα1A-Adrenergic receptor polymorphism
Xie H, Kim R, Stein C, Gainer J, Brown N, Wood A. α1A-Adrenergic receptor polymorphism. Pharmacogenetics And Genomics 1999, 9: 651-656. DOI: 10.1097/01213011-199910000-00012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchΑ1A-ARAfrican AmericansPrevalence of hypertensionPathogenesis of hypertensionVascular smooth muscleΑ1-adrenergic receptorsΑ1-adrenergic responsesCaucasian individualsEthnic differencesΑ1-AR subtypesVasoconstrictor sensitivityVascular reactivityBlood pressureEssential hypertensionHypertensive individualsVascular responsesVascular toneΑ1-ARReceptor polymorphismsSmooth muscleHypertensionSignificant intergenotypic differencesPotential roleRestriction fragment length polymorphismAllelic distributionFrequency of functionally important beta-2 adrenoceptor polymorphisms varies markedly among African-American, Caucasian and Chinese individuals.
Xie HG, Stein CM, Kim RB, Xiao ZS, He N, Zhou HH, Gainer JV, Brown NJ, Haines JL, Wood AJ. Frequency of functionally important beta-2 adrenoceptor polymorphisms varies markedly among African-American, Caucasian and Chinese individuals. Pharmacogenetics And Genomics 1999, 9: 511-6. PMID: 10780271.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAfrican American individualsChinese individualsEthnic differencesSeverity of hypertensionDifferent ethnic groupsBeta-2 adrenergic receptorsMarked ethnic differencesEthnic groupsAdrenoceptor polymorphismsBAR agonistsGlu27 polymorphismGly16 alleleGlu27 alleleVascular responsesDisease manifestationsHealthy individualsAdrenergic receptorsCommon polymorphismsMarked interethnic differencesInterethnic differencesHomozygous genotypeGln27Arg16PolymorphismAlterations