Identifying susceptibility genes for essential hypertension by transcriptome-wide association study

Hypertension is a leading risk factor of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the population worldwide. Recently, hundreds of genomic loci were reported for hypertension by GWAS, however, the most SNPs are located in intergenic regions of genome, where a functional cause is difficult to determine...

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Main Authors: Lu-jie Huang, Qiao-xia Zhang, Robert K. Valenzuela, Jia-chen Xu, Fang Yan, Jie Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240558082200187X