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Adrenergic alpha-1 pathway is associated with hypertension among Nigerians in a pathway-focused analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Reder Nicholas P, Tayo Bamidele O, Salako Babatunde, Ogunniyi Adesola, Adeyemo Adebowale, Rotimi Charles, Cooper Richard S
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BACKGROUND: The pathway-focused association approach offers a hypothesis driven alternative to the agnostic genome-wide association study. Here we apply the pathway-focused approach to an association study of hypertension, systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in 1614 Nigerians with genome-wide data. METHODS AND RESULTS: Testing of 28 pathways with biological relevance to hypertension,...
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