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What Have We Learned from the Genetics of Hypertension?
The Medical clinics of North America - 1 Jan 2017
Luft Friedrich C
Abstract excerpt
Twin studies show that about half the risk of hypertension development is inherited. Mendelian hypertension has elucidated astounding basic pathways contributing to hypertension over (presumably) dietary salt intake or directly through increased peripheral vascular resistance. The Mendelian mutations exercise large effects on blood pressure. Inversely, studying the entire human genome for sources signaling blood...
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