[Genetics and essential hypertension: candidate genes or screening of the whole genome?].

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Essential hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor in the industrialised countries. Its hereditary nature has been well established in many familial studies: about 30% of blood pressure variance is thought to be genetically determined. However, the identification of the culprit genes has met with many difficulties: the multitude of genes, the effect of which is difficult to appreciate, the many possible...

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