Endocrine Abstracts

Background: We have recently demonstrated that blood pressure (BP) in children was elevated in males compared to females in the post-pubertal period. We have also shown that the Y chromosome in associated to BP in adult men. Here we report on the effect of 2 polymorphisms on the Y chromosome on BP in male children studied longitudinally both in the pre- and post-pubertal periods.Methods: We genotyped for 2 SNPs (HindIII +/-; M9 C/G) on the Y chromosome n...