Article
Progress and future aspects in genetics of human hypertension.
Current hypertension reports - 1 Dec 2013
Zhao Qi, Kelly Tanika N, Li Changwei, He Jiang
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension has become a major global health burden due to its high prevalence and associated increase in risk of cardiovascular disease and premature death. It is well established that hypertension is determined by both genetic and environmental factors and their complex interactions. Recent large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified a total of 38 loci which...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Risk Factors