Heterogeneity of genetic control of blood pressure in ethnically different populations

Human Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 685-708

  Livshits, Gregory ^a   Ginsburg, Emil ^a   Kobyliansky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diastolic blood pressure; Heterogeneity; Major gene; Segregation analysis; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033179814     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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