Article
Genetic approach to diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in human hypertension.
Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension - 1 Mar 1997
Williams G H, Fisher N D
Abstract excerpt
In the most exciting genetic advances in the diagnosis of essential hypertension, genes responsible for three distinct forms of low-renin hypertension have been identified. Two of these forms are dominant: glucocorticoid remediable hypertension (a new gene created by the fusion of the 11 beta-hyd...
Topics
- Angiotensinogen
- Animals
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
- Phenotype
- Renin-Angiotensin System
- Syndrome