Congenic rat strains are important tools for the genetic dissection of essential hypertension.

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The identification of mutated genes and the characterization of disease pathways in monogenetic forms of human arterial hypertension has been very successful during the past decade, although only little progress has been made with regard to the genetic analysis of essential hypertension. Inbred rat strains that display hypertension as an inherited trait represent an attractive substitute for the dissection of the...

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