Quantitative diagnostic analysis of hypertonia

摘要

The invention relates to the application of the direct correlation between the overexpression or the functional molecular modification of human homologs of the sgk family and hypertension for quantitative diagnosis of a particular form of genetically determined hypertension. In particular the invention relates to the detection of a direct link between two different polymorphisms of individual nucleotides in the hsgk1 gene and the genetically determined predisposition to hypertension. The invention further relates to the provision of a diagnostic kit containing antibodies or polynucleotides for detecting the diagnostic targets hsgk1, hsgk2 and hsgk3.