Beyond genome-wide association studies: New strategies for identifying genetic determinants of hypertension

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 442-451

  Wang, Xiaoling ^b   Prins, Bram P ^a   Sõber, Siim ^c   Laan, Maris ^c   Snieder, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Association analysis; Blood pressure; Epigenetics; Genome wide association study; GWAS; Histone modification; Hypertension; Linkage analysis; Methylation; microRNAs; Next generation sequencing; Post GWAS analysis

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H1; HISTONE H2B; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; MICRORNA; PROTEIN KINASE WNK4;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENAC GENE; EPIGENETICS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WNK4 GENE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81255134093     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-011-0230-y     Document Type: Article

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