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Childhood hypertension in autosomal-dominant hypertension with brachydactyly.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Nov 2010
Toka Okan, Maass Philipp G, Aydin Atakan, Toka Hakan, Hübner Norbert, Rüschendorf Franz, Gong Maolian, Luft Friedrich C, Bähring Sylvia
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Affected individuals with autosomal-dominant hypertension with brachydactyly syndrome develop severe progressive hypertension and, if left untreated, develop stroke by age <50 years. In 1996 we described hypertension and brachydactyly and presented data on adults. We recently revisited this family and performed further studies, focusing particularly on the children in this family. We performed a genome-wide...
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