Genome-wide association analyses using electronic health records identify new loci influencing blood pressure variation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 54-64

  Hoffmann, Thomas J ^a,b   Ehret, Georg B ^c,d   Nandakumar, Priyanka ^c   Ranatunga, Dilrini ^e   Schaefer, Catherine ^e   Kwok, Pui Yan ^b   Iribarren, Carlos ^e   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^c   Risch, Neil ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EAST ASIAN; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH ASIAN; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIBIAL ARTERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84995494168     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3715     Document Type: Article

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