A genome-wide association study of hypertension and blood pressure in African Americans.
The evidence for the existence of genetic susceptibility variants for the common form of hypertension ("essential hypertension") remains weak and inconsistent. We sought genetic variants underlying blood pressure (BP) by conducting a genome-wide association study (GWAS) among African Ameri...
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Auteurs principaux: | Adebowale Adeyemo, Norman Gerry, Guanjie Chen, Alan Herbert, Ayo Doumatey, Hanxia Huang, Jie Zhou, Kerrie Lashley, Yuanxiu Chen, Michael Christman, Charles Rotimi |
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Langue: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009
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