Genetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension: current and future implications.

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Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (formerly primary pulmonary hypertension) can affect more than one member of the same family. In the past 25 years scientists have exposed the inheritance pattern and a major element of the molecular basis for inherited pulmonary arterial hypertension. Familial pulmonary arterial hypertension is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with incomplete penetrance (i.e.,...

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