Genome Wide Association Study Identifies L3MBTL4 as a Novel Susceptibility Gene for Hypertension

Hypertension is a major global health burden and a leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Although its heritability has been documented previously, contributing loci identified to date account for only a small fraction of blood pressure (BP) variation, which strongly suggests the existence...

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Main Authors: Liu, Xin, Hu, Cheng, Bao, Minghui, Li, Jing, Liu, Xiaoyan, Tan, Xuerui, Zhou, Yong, Chen, Yequn, Wu, Shouling, Chen, Shuohua, Zhang, Rong, Jiang, Feng, Jia, Weiping, Wang, Xingyu, Yang, Xinchun, Cai, Jun
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969609/