Genetic effects on blood pressure localized to chromosomes 6 and 7

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1367-1373

  Adeyemo, Adebowale ^a   Luke, Amy ^b   Wu, Xiaodong ^b   Cooper, Richard S ^b   Kan, Donghui ^b   Omotade, Olayemi ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African population; Genome wide scan; QTDT

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; CHROMOSOME 7Q; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644449270     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjh.0000173519.06353.8b     Document Type: Article

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