The genetics of essential hypertension

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Essential hypertension is an escalating problem for industrialized populations. It is currently seen as a 'complex' genetic trait caused by multiple susceptibility genes the effects of which are modulated by gene-environment and gene-gene interactions. Nevertheless, the success to date in identifying these susceptibility genes has been very limited. A number of candidates has been proposed, but demonstrating...

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