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Role of Genetic Factors in Susceptibility to Experimental Hypertension due to Chronic Excess Salt Ingestion

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THERE is considerable evidence indicating a familial trend in human essential hypertension1. A familial disease could be due exclusively to common environmental factors, exclusively to common genetic factors, or to an interaction of the two.

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    LEWIS K. DAHL, MARTHA HEINE & LORRAINE TASSINARI

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DAHL, L., HEINE, M. & TASSINARI, L. Role of Genetic Factors in Susceptibility to Experimental Hypertension due to Chronic Excess Salt Ingestion. Nature 194, 480–482 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194480b0

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