Methods and compositions of correlating tissue kallikrein gene promoter polymorphisms with essential hypertension

摘要

A method is provided for identifying a human subject as having an increased or decreased risk of developing essential hypertension, comprising determining the presence in the subject of an allele in the promoter region of the subject's tissue kallikrein gene correlated with an increased or decreased risk of developing essential hypertension, the presence of the allele identifying the subject as having an increased or decreased risk of developing essential hypertension.