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Admixture mapping provides evidence of association of the VNN1 gene with hypertension.
PloS one - 28 Nov 2007
Zhu Xiaofeng, Cooper Richard S
Abstract excerpt
Migration patterns in modern societies have created the opportunity to use population admixture as a strategy to identify susceptibility genes. To implement this strategy, we genotyped a highly informative ancestry marker panel of 2270 single nucleotide polymorphisms in a random population sample of African Americans (N = 1743), European Americans (N = 1000) and Mexican Americans (N = 581). We then examined the...
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