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From the Cover: Whole-genome association study identifies STK39 as a hypertension susceptibility gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Jan 2009
Wang Ying, O'Connell Jeffrey R, McArdle Patrick F, Wade James B, Dorff Sarah E, Shah Sanjiv J, Shi Xiaolian, Pan Lin, Rampersaud Evadnie, Shen Haiqing, Kim James D, Subramanya Arohan R, Steinle Nanette I, Parsa Afshin, Ober Carole C, Welling Paul A, Chakravarti Aravinda, Weder Alan B, Cooper Richard S, Mitchell Braxton D, Shuldiner Alan R, Chang Yen-Pei C
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension places a major burden on individual and public health, but the genetic basis of this complex disorder is poorly understood. We conducted a genome-wide association study of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) in Amish subjects and found strong association signals with...
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