Repeated blood pressure measurements in a sample of Swedish twins: Heritabilities and associations with polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1543-1550

  Iliadou, Anastasia ^a   Lichtenstein, Paul ^a   Morgenstern, Ralf ^a   Forsberg, Lena ^a   Svensson, Richard ^a   De Faire, Ulf ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association; Diastolic; Genetic and environmental components; Renin angiotensin system; Systolic; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC STABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SWEDEN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWINS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE;

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SWEDEN; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0036668198     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200208000-00017     Document Type: Article

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