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SUBMITTER: Marques FZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4107748 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marques Francine Z FZ Prestes Priscilla R PR Pinheiro Leonardo B LB Scurrah Katrina K Emslie Kerry R KR Tomaszewski Maciej M Harrap Stephen B SB Charchar Fadi J FJ
BMC medical genomics 20140715
<h4>Background</h4>The role of copy number variation (CNV) has been poorly explored in essential hypertension in part due to technical difficulties in accurately assessing absolute numbers of DNA copies. Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) provides a powerful new approach to CNV quantitation. The aim of our study was to investigate whether CNVs located in regions previously associated with blood pressure (BP) variation in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were associated with essential hypertension ...[more]