International study identifies potential treatment targets for hypertension
Sunday, May 10, 2009 - 14:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), as part of a major international research collaboration, have associated common variants in eight regions of DNA with blood pressure levels in human patients. Six of the identified regions have not previously been implicated in blood pressure regulation...
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