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Mitochondrial genome mutations in hypertensive individuals.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Jul 2004
Schwartz Faina, Duka Arvi, Sun Fengzhu, Cui Jing, Manolis Athanasios, Gavras Haralambos
Abstract excerpt
Human essential hypertension (HTN), a polygenic, multifactorial, and highly heterogeneous disorder of unknown etiology, has been shown to have excess maternal transmission in several studies, suggesting a possible mitochondrial involvement. In an effort to assess the contribution of the mitochondrial genome to HTN we initiated a systematic, extended screening of hypertensive individuals to identify potentially...
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