Gene-smoking interactions identify several novel blood pressure loci in the framingham heart study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 343-354

  Sung, Yun J ^a   De Las Fuentes, Lisa ^a   Schwander, Karen L ^a   Simino, Jeannette ^a   Rao, Dabeeru C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; gene environment interaction; genomewide association study; hypertension; single nucleotide polymorphisms; smoking

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; COLLECTIN SUBFAMILY MEMBER 10; MEGALIN; MENINGIOMA 1; NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 3; PROTEIN; T CELL DIFFERENTIATION PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 2; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 84983341286     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpu149     Document Type: Article

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