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Genome Wide Association Study Identifies L3MBTL4 as a Novel Susceptibility Gene for Hypertension.
Scientific reports - 2 Aug 2016
Liu Xin, Hu Cheng, Bao Minghui, Li Jing, Liu Xiaoyan, Tan Xuerui, Zhou Yong, Chen Yequn, Wu Shouling, Chen Shuohua, Zhang Rong, Jiang Feng, Jia Weiping, Wang Xingyu, Yang Xinchun, Cai Jun
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is a major global health burden and a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Although its heritability has been documented previously, contributing loci identified to date account for only a small fraction of blood pressure (BP) variation, which strongly suggests the existence of undiscovered variants. To identify novel variants, we conducted a three staged genetic study in 21,990...
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