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Heritability of ambulatory and office blood pressure phenotypes in Swedish families.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Sept 2004
Fava Cristiano, Burri Philippe, Almgren Peter, Groop Leif, Hulthén U Lennart, Melander Olle
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to estimate the heritability of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure and office blood pressure phenotypes in Swedish families. METHODS: We measured ambulatory and office blood pressure in 260 siblings without antihypertensive treatment from 118 families. Blood pressure heritability was estimated using standard quantitative genetic variance component analysis implemented in the...
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