Article
Mutations contributing to human blood pressure variation.
Recent progress in hormone research - 1 Jan 1997
Karet F E, Lifton R P
Abstract excerpt
In spite of a large body of physiological, biochemical, and recently genetic investigations, the causes of hypertension remain largely unknown. Recognition that hypertension is, in part, genetically determined has motivated studies to identify mutations conferring susceptibility. To date, mutatio...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Pressure
- Humans
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Hypertension
- Kidney
- Mineralocorticoids
- Mutation
- Syndrome