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Cosegregation of albuminuria and blood pressure: the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis (IRAS) family study.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Jun 2005
Guo Xiuqing, Cui Jinrui, Wagenknecht Lynne E, Norris Jill M, Haffner Steven M, Darwin Christine, Jinagouda Sujata, Rotter Jerome I, Saad Mohammed F
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BACKGROUND: Albuminuria was shown to be heritable and to share common genetic determinants with blood pressure (BP) in individuals of white ethnicity. Our aim in this study was to examine the familial aggregation of albuminuria and its phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations with BP in nondiabetic individuals of Hispanic (HA) and African American (AA) ethnicity. METHODS: The study included 129 large...
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