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A genome-wide association study of hypertension-related phenotypes in a Japanese population.
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society - 1 Nov 2010
Hiura Yumiko, Tabara Yasuharu, Kokubo Yoshihiro, Okamura Tomonori, Miki Tetsuro, Tomoike Hitonobu, Iwai Naoharu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successful in identifying genes that contribute to common diseases and phenotypes. A GWAS of hypertension-related phenotypes in a Japanese population was conducted in the current study. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 936 participants were recruited from the Suita Study and a GWAS with 538,732 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) was...
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