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Lack of association of 3 functional gene variants with hypertension in African Americans.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Jun 2000
Larson N, Hutchinson R, Boerwinkle E
Abstract excerpt
African Americans are a critical population in which to study the impact of physiologically important candidate gene mutations on the occurrence of hypertension. African Americans not only have a higher prevalence of hypertension, but the disease strikes earlier, with greater severity, and often results in death at an earlier age compared with whites in the United States. In this study, 3 physiologically...
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