Confirmation needed for genes for hypertension

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9160, 1999, Pages 1200-1201

  Colhoun, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHROMOSOME 16P; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIBLING;

EID: 0033541482     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)00001-X     Document Type: Note

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