Hypertension markers

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of detecting for an individual mammal a high likelihood of having hypertension or a genetic predisposition for having hypertension, the method comprising determining the presence in a biological sample from the individual mammal of at least one marker protein which is indicative of a high likelihood of having hypertension or a genetic predisposition for having hypertension, wherein the marker protein is selected from the group consisting of the proteins shown in Table 1. In a further aspect the invention relates to novel proteins, nucleic acid fragments and use of said proteins or nucleic acid fragments for detection of whether an individual mammal has a high likelihood of having hypertension or a genetic predisposition for having hypertension as well as test kits for this purpose.