Blood pressure: Genetic and environmental influences

Human Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 467-473

  Gerber, Linda M ^a   Halberstein, Robert A ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

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