Press release: Identified genes involved in the pathogenesis of primary aldosteronism(Assistant Professor Inoue)

A research group including Assistant Professor Inoue, Assistant Professor Tatsuhiko Naito of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (at the time of the research/now a postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Professor Yukinori Okada (Team leader, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Systems Genetics / Professor of Department of Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo), and Lecturer Kenji Oki of Hiroshima University(Department of Molecular and Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Science), has conducted a genome-wide association study of primary aldosteronism, and the results were published in Circulation.

Tatsuhiko Naito, Kosuke Inoue, Kyuto Sonehara, Ryuta Baba, Takaya Kodama, Yu Otagaki, Akira Okada, Kiyotaka Itcho, Kazuhiro Kobuke, Shinji Kishimoto, Kenichi Yamamoto, BioBank Japan, Takayuki Morisaki, Yukihito Higashi, Nobuyuki Hinata, Koji Arihiro, Noboru Hattori, Yukinori Okada, Kenji Oki .Genetic Risk of Primary Aldosteronism and Its Contribution to Hypertension: A Cross-Ancestry Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Study.Circulation,21 February 2023

DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.062349

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