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Genes and Hypertension
1 Jan 2000
Abstract excerpt
Human essential hypertension is a complex, multifactorial, quantitative trait under a polygenic control. Several strategies have been developed over the last decade to dissect genetic determinants of hypertension. Of these, the most successful have been studies that identified rare mendelian syndromes in which a single gene mutation causes high blood pressure. The attempts to identify multiple genes, each with a...
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