EurekAlert -- Scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), as part of a major international research collaboration, have associated common variants in eight regions of DNA with blood pressure levels in human patients. Six of the identified regions have not previously been implicated in blood pressure regulation. In their study, receiving advance online publication in Nature Genetics, members of the Global Blood Pressure Genetics (Global BPgen) consortium – which includes 159 investigators from 93 centers in the U.S. and Europe – analyzed genetic data from up to 130,000 individuals from around the world.
