Genetic Variation in the Raptor Gene Is Associated With Overweight But Not Hypertension in American Men of Japanese Ancestry - Morris, Brian J.; Carnes, Bruce A.; Chen, Randi; Donlon, Timothy A.; He, Qimei; Grove, John S.; Masaki, Kamal H.; Elliott, Ayako; Willcox, Donald C.; Allsopp, Richard; Willcox, Bradley J. (American journal of hypertension, 2015)
Keywords: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing - genetics; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Asian Continental Ancestry Group - genetics; Case-Control Studies; Gene Frequency; Genetic Association Studies; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genetics; Hawaii - epidemiology; Humans; Hypertension - diagnosis; Hypertension - ethnology; Hypertension - genetics; Japan - ethnology; Male; Middle Aged; Original; Overweight - diagnosis; Overweight - ethnology; Overweight - genetics; Phenotype; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Regulatory-Associated Protein of mTOR; Risk Factors; body weight; blood pressure; mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR); raptor gene (RPTOR); genetic association analysis; isolated systolic hypertension; essential hypertension; recursive partitioning analysis; hypertension