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Hypertension, or elevated blood pressure, is a major risk factor for various cardiovascular, renal diseases, and stroke. The form of hypertension with no identifiable cause is referred to as Essential Hypertension. Familial studies indicate that Essential Hypertension is heritable and, thereby, classical genetic approaches have been applied on both human and other mammalian models of hypertension to map the locations of the allelic variants within quantitative trait loci for blood pressure. The post genome era has further elevated this area of research into large-scale genome-wide association studies of hypertension in humans. Collectively, these studies have resulted in the prioritization and cataloging of several genomic regions containing allelic variants as candidates linked or associated with essential hypertension. Further, they are providing evidence to suggest that the inheritance of hypertension is rather complex, encompassing multiple variants both within protein-coding and non-coding annotations, each of which may act independently or interactively with other genes and/or environmental factors to differentially regulate blood pressure. This book provides an overview of the various methods employed to study the genetics of hypertension and discuss the progress and prospects of this area of research that may contribute towards individualized clinical management of hypertension in the future.

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Xi Cheng is a pre-doctoral fellow in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences. His research focus is in the area of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases. He received his Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering from the Fuzhou University Zhicheng College in China in 2012. Besides obtaining a Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics and Biomarkers, since 2013, he has been researching with Dr. Bina Joe to investigate the contributions of non-coding RNAs to the inheritance of hypertension using novel congenic and gene-edited rat models of hypertension. He has been invited to deliver podium presentations of his research at various Research conferences including the 2015 Midwest Graduate Symposium held in Toledo, OH, USA and the 2015 Annual Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology meeting held in Boston, USA and the 42nd Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium held in Toledo, OH, USA.

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