Hypertension, Essential

Description

The Pickering school held that blood pressure has a continuous distribution, that multiple genes and multiple environmental factors determine the level of one's blood pressure just as the determination of stature and intelligence is multifactorial, and that 'essential hypertension' is merely the upper end of the distribution (Pickering, 1978). In this view the person with essential hypertension is one who happens to inherit an aggregate of genes determining hypertension (and also is exposed to exogenous factors that favor hypertension). The Platt school took the view that essential hypertension is a simple mendelian dominant trait (Platt, 1963). McDonough et al. (1964) defended the monogenic idea. See McKusick (1960) and Kurtz and Spence (1993) for reviews. Swales (1985) reviewed the Platt-Pickering controversy as an 'episode in recent medical history.' The Pickering point of view appears to be more consistent with the observations.

Clinical Features

Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Hypertension, Essential

  • Hypertension
  • Hypertonia
  • Small for gestational age
  • Hypotension
  • Malnutrition
  • Hyperaldosteronism
  • Pseudohypoaldosteronism
  • Large placenta
  • Elevated systolic blood pressure
  • Elevated diastolic blood pressure

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Incidence and onset information

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Hypertension, Essential Recommended genes panels

Panel Name, Specifity and genes Tested/covered
Hirschsprung disease, cardiac defects, and autonomic dysfunction (sequence analysis of ECE1 gene).

By CGC Genetics (Portugal).

ECE1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
12 %
Hirschsprung Disease (Non-syndromic) Sequencing Panel with CNV Detection.

By PreventionGenetics PreventionGenetics (United States).

ECE1, EDN3, EDNRB, GDNF, NRTN, RET
Specificity
17 %
Genes
12 %
Hirschsprung Disease, Cardiac Defects and Autonomic Dysfunction via ECE1 Gene Sequencing with CNV Detection.

By PreventionGenetics PreventionGenetics (United States).

ECE1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
12 %
Central hypoventilation syndrome, congenital.

By Centogene AG - the Rare Disease Company (Germany).

ECE1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
12 %
Hirschsprung disease.

By Centogene AG - the Rare Disease Company (Germany).

ECE1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
12 %
Hirschsprung Disease NGS Panel.

By Fulgent Genetics Fulgent Genetics (United States).

ECE1, EDN3, EDNRB, GDNF, RET
Specificity
20 %
Genes
12 %
ECE1.

By Fulgent Genetics Fulgent Genetics (United States).

ECE1
Specificity
100 %
Genes
12 %
Study of Molecular Markers Of Essential Hypertension and Associated Cardiovascular Events (37 genes - 57 genetic variants).

By HeartGenetics, Genetics and Biotechnology, SA (Portugal).

SCNN1A, SCNN1B, SLC12A3, CALCA, WNK1, STK39, CLCNKA, CLCNKB, ADD1, ADRA1A, ECE1, AGTR1, AGTR2, GNB3, GRK4, HSD11B2, NEDD4L, NOS2, NPPA, NR3C2 , (...)

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Specificity
24 %
Genes
56 %

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