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A high-density admixture scan in 1,670 African Americans with hypertension.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2007
Deo Rahul C, Patterson Nick, Tandon Arti, McDonald Gavin J, Haiman Christopher A, Ardlie Kristin, Henderson Brian E, Henderson Sean O, Reich David
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension (HTN) is a devastating disease with a higher incidence in African Americans than European Americans, inspiring searches for genetic variants that contribute to this difference. We report the results of a large-scale admixture scan for genes contributing HTN risk, in which we screened 1,670 African Americans with HTN and 387 control individuals for regions of the genome with elevated proportion of...
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