A primer on the genetics of hypertension

Kidney International

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 328-342

  Cusi, Daniele ^a,b   Bianchi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Dominance effect; Epistatic multigenic; Gene sequence; Inheritance; Locus heterogeneity; Mutation; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADDUCIN; ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID; MINERALOCORTICOID; RENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; LIDDLE SYNDROME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPOALDOSTERONISM; RAT; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW;

EID: 0031820933     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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