{"id":82913,"date":"2018-09-23T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/study-of-one-million-people-leads-to-worlds-biggest-advance-in-blood-pressure-genetics"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:13:10","slug":"study-of-one-million-people-leads-to-worlds-biggest-advance-in-blood-pressure-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/study-of-one-million-people-leads-to-worlds-biggest-advance-in-blood-pressure-genetics","title":{"rendered":"Study of one million people leads to world\u2019s biggest advance in blood pressure genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-of-one-million-people-leads-to-worlds-biggest-advance-in-blood-pressure-genetics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 500 new gene regions that influence people\u2019s blood pressure have been discovered in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date, led by Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>Involving more than one million participants, the results more than triple the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood pressure<\/a> gene regions to over 1,000 and means that almost a third of the estimated heritability for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood<\/a> pressure is now explained.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <i>Nature Genetics<\/i> and supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council and British Heart Foundation, also reports a strong role of these genes, not only in blood vessels, but also within the adrenal glands above the kidney, and in body fat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-09-million-people-world-biggest-advance.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;09-million-people-wo...vance.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 500 new gene regions that influence people\u2019s blood pressure have been discovered in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date, led by Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London. Involving more than one million participants, the results more than triple the number of blood pressure gene regions to over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83012,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82913\/revisions\/83012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}