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Genome-wide scan for hypertension linkage to chromosome 12q23.1 - q23.3 in a Chinese family.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 May 2013
Dong Yan, Yang Lin, Fang Fang, Zhang Jing, Jiang Gengru, Xu Shijie
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Essential hypertension is a multifactorial disorder with a complex phenotype. Here we report a susceptibility locus for the hypertension mapped by a genome-wide microsatellite scanning in an affected Chinese family, in which 11 members had hypertension before the age of 40. METHODS: A total of 22 individuals from a single family from Shanghai, PR China, were genotyped on more than 400...
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