sub:provenance { sub:assertiondcterms:description "[In the current studies, we have demonstrated (1) that a gene or genes responsible for a whole spectrum of cardiovascular risk factors mapped to a limited segment of the centromeric region of rat chromosome 4, (2) that a spontaneous deletion in the gene for Cd36 that encodes a fatty acid transporter and is located directly at the peak of QTL linkages on chromosome 4 has been indirectly linked to the transmission of insulin resistance, defective fatty acid metabolism, and increased blood pressure, and (3) based on complementation analysis in two transgenic lines expressing wild-type Cd36 on the genetic background of the SHR strain harboring the deletion variant of Cd36, we have established that defective Cd36 can be a determinant of disordered fatty acid metabolism, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance in spontaneous hypertension.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en ; wi:evidencedgn-void:source_evidence_literature ; sio:SIO_000772miriam-pubmed:11140856 ; prov:wasDerivedFromdgn-void:BEFREE ; prov:wasGeneratedByeco:ECO_0000203 . dgn-void:BEFREEpav:importedOn "2017-02-19"^^xsd:date . dgn-void:source_evidence_literatureaeco:ECO_0000212 ; rdfs:comment "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en ; rdfs:label "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . }