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SUBMITTER: Wang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4476022 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current hypertension reports 20150101 1
There is growing concern about elevated blood pressure (BP) in children. The evidence for familial aggregation of childhood BP is substantial. Twin studies have shown that a large part of the familial aggregation of childhood BP is due to genes. The first part of this review provides the latest progress in gene finding for childhood BP, focusing on the combined effects of multiple loci identified from the genome-wide association studies on adult BP. We further review the evidence on the contribu ...[more]