Article
Ethnic differences in genetic predisposition to hypertension.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Jun 2012
Kato Norihiro
Abstract excerpt
Recently, large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified a number of loci significantly associated with systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure (BP). Most of the GWA studies reported to date were conducted in populations of European descent. Given the appreciable ethnic differences in clinical presentation of hypertension, studies in non-European populations allow us to assess...
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