Genetics of essential hypertension.

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Blood pressure is a complex quantitative trait that is determined by multiple environmental and genetic factors. Although some simple Mendelian forms of high blood pressure have been described, essential hypertension is characterized by a complex mode of inheritance. Based on recent advances in molecular biology and statistical genetics, it has become feasible to search for chromosome regions that may contain...

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