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Insight into the genetics of hypertension, a core component of the metabolic syndrome.
Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care - 1 Jul 2008
Pravenec Michal, Petretto Enrico
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To provide insight into genetics of essential hypertension, including discussion of methods used both in human and animal experimental studies and interpretation of results. RECENT FINDINGS: On the basis of recent progress in sequencing of human genome, detection of millions of single nucleotide polymorphism markers, determination of the extend of linkage disequilibrium (haplotypes), efficient...
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