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Susceptibility genes in hypertension.
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2011
Armani C, Botto N, Andreassi M G
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Hypertension is a complex, multifactorial disease; genetic factors represent one third to half of the inter-individual variability of blood pressure values. Among the causes of secondary hypertension are a group of disorders with a Mendelian inheritance pattern. Recent advances in molecular biology have revealed the pathogenesis of hypertension in many of these conditions. Remarkably, the mechanism in every case...
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