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 Americans, a po...

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Main Authors: Adeyemo, Adebowale, Gerry, Norman, Chen, Guanjie, Herbert, Alan, Doumatey, Ayo, Huang, Hanxia, Zhou, Jie, Lashley, Kerrie, Chen, Yuanxiu, Christman, Michael, Rotimi, Charles
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702100/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609347
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000564
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