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Association of genetic variation in the mitochondrial genome with blood pressure and metabolic traits.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Oct 2012
Liu Chunyu, Yang Qiong, Hwang Shih-Jen, Sun Fengzhu, Johnson Andrew D, Shirihai Orian S, Vasan Ramachandran S, Levy Daniel, Schwartz Faina
Abstract excerpt
Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Several studies have noted a consistent maternal effect on BP; consequently, mitochondrial DNA variation has become an additional target of investigation of the missing BP heritability. Analyses of common mitochondria...
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