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Heart mass and blood pressure have separate genetic determinants in the New Zealand genetically hypertensive (GH) rat

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1995

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Eugenie L. Harris, E. L. Phelan, Caryn M. Thompsont, J. Alasdair Millar, Murray R. Grigor

Journal of Hypertension

Abstract

The results show that cardiac hypertrophy and blood pressure have independent genetic determinants in the GH rat, and indicate the importance of sex in determining the phenotypic expression of genes underlying cardiovascular pathology.