[To elucidate the role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in diabetic nephropathy, we examined the association between diabetic nephropathy in a large cohort of Japanese type 2 diabetic patients and polymorphisms within the genes that encode angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), angiotensinogen (AGT) and angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AGTR1).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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