Heritability of blood pressure traits and the genetic contribution to blood pressure variance explained by four blood-pressure-related genes

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 565-570

  Van Rijn, Marie Josee E ^a   Schut, Anna F C ^a   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a   Deinum, Jaap ^b   Sayed Tabatabaei, Fakhredin A ^a   Yazdanpanah, Mojgan ^a   Isaacs, Aaron ^a   Axenovich, Tatiana I ^c   Zorkoltseva, Irina V ^c   Zillikens, M Carola ^a   Pols, Huib A P ^a   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^a   Oostra, Ben A ^a   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Genes; Heritability; Variance

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADDUCIN; ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 33846786802     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32801449fb     Document Type: Article

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