Molecular genetics of susceptibility to the development of hypertension.

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Blood pressure is a quantitative multifactorial trait with both environmental and genetic determinants, with essential hypertension simply representing one extreme of the blood pressure distribution. While much is known about environmental factors that predispose to the development of hypertension, the nature of the genetic factors that increase such susceptibility remain virtually unknown. However, with advances...

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