Journal
CURRENT HYPERTENSION REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 17-25Publisher
CURRENT MEDICINE GROUP
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-009-0086-6
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Blood pressure; Hypertension; Genome-wide association study; Genomics
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- National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute [5R01HL086694-02]
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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Contemporary genomic tools now allow the fast and reliable genotyping of hundreds of thousands of variants and permit an unbiased interrogation of the common variability across the human genome. These technical advances have been the basis of numerous recent investigations of genes underlying complex genetic traits, and the results for blood pressure and hypertension have been of particular interest. The pathophysiology of the complex genetic trait blood pressure and hypertension is unclear. The heritability of essential hypertension is high and insights can be gained by finding associated genes. Current genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 10 to 20 loci in or near genes that generally were not expected to be associated with blood pressure or essential hypertension; more significant variants will be discovered when even larger and more refined studies become available. This article gives a short introduction to GWAS and summarizes the current findings for blood pressure and hypertension.
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