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Evidence for a gene influencing blood pressure on chromosome 17. Genome scan linkage results for longitudinal blood pressure phenotypes in subjects from the framingham heart study.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Oct 2000
Levy D, DeStefano A L, Larson M G, O'Donnell C J, Lifton R P, Gavras H, Cupples L A, Myers R H
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Hypertension is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Efforts to identify hypertension genes have focused on 3 approaches: mendelian disorders, candidate genes, and genome-wide scans. Thus far, these efforts have not identified genes that contribute substantively to overall blood pressure (...
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