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Heredity and the autonomic nervous system in human hypertension.
Current hypertension reports - 1 Feb 2000
O'Connor D T, Insel P A, Ziegler M G, Hook V Y, Smith D W, Hamilton B A, Taylor P W, Parmer R J
Abstract excerpt
Because the complex phenotype of human hypertension is at least in part genetically determined, how individual genes ultimately contribute to the disease is not well understood. By contrast, intermediate phenotypes are traits associated with complex disease, but which may display simpler genetic properties such as greater heritability, more consistent and earlier penetrance and bimodality, and may suggest...
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