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Genetics of the mineralocorticoid system in primary hypertension.
Current hypertension reports - 1 Feb 2002
Ferrari Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Abnormalities in steroid biosynthesis have been known for years to cause hypertension in some cases of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. In these patients hypertension usually accompanies a characteristic phenotype with abnormal sexual differentiation. Recently, the molecular basis of four forms of severe hypertension transmitted on an autosomal basis but without additional phenotypic features has been elucidated....
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