Article
Genetic determinants of hypertension: identification of candidate phenotypes.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Jul 2000
Kotchen T A, Kotchen J M, Grim C E, George V, Kaldunski M L, Cowley A W, Hamet P, Chelius T H
Abstract excerpt
Our long-term objective is to identify genes whose expression results in hypertension and in phenotypic changes that may contribute to hypertension. The purpose of the present study was to describe evidence for the heritability of hypertension-related phenotypes in hypertensive, hyperlipidemic bl...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Arginine Vasopressin
- Black People
- Cholesterol
- Cyclic AMP
- Cyclic GMP
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Posture