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Direct Estimates of the Genomic Contributions to Blood Pressure Heritability within a Population-Based Cohort (ARIC)

Blood pressure (BP) is a heritable trait with multiple environmental and genetic contributions, with current heritability estimates from twin and family studies being ~ 40%. Here, we use genome-wide polymorphism data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study to estimate BP heritabili...

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Autores principales: Salfati, Elias, Morrison, Alanna C., Boerwinkle, Eric, Chakravarti, Aravinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26162070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133031