Insights into the genetics of blood pressure in black South African individuals: the Birth to Twenty cohort

• Hoofdauteurs: Liesl M. Hendry (Auteur), Venesa Sahibdeen (Auteur), Ananyo Choudhury (Auteur), Shane A. Norris (Auteur), Michèle Ramsay (Auteur), Zané Lombard (Auteur), of the AWI-Gen study and as members of the H3Africa Consortium (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of non-communicable disease deaths globally, with hypertension being a major risk factor contributing to CVDs. Blood pressure is a heritable trait, with relatively few genetic studies having been performed in Africans. This stu...