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Liddle’s syndrome: Heritable human hypertension caused by mutations in the ß subnit of the epithelial sodium channel

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

    R. A. Shimkets, C. M. Bositis, C. Nelson-Williams, J. H. Hansson & R. P. Lifton

  2. Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama and Birmingham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama

    D. G. Warnock

  3. Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital and University of California, San Francisco, California

    M. Schambelan

  4. National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung

    J. R. Gill Jr.

  5. Blood Institute Hypertension-Endocrine Branch, Bethesda, MD

    J. R. Gill Jr.

  6. Veterans’ Affairs Hospital, Bronx, New York

    S. Ulick

  7. Capital District Renal Physicians, Albany, New-York

    R. V. Milora

  8. Medical College of Wisconsin, Saint Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin

    J. W. Findling

  9. Institut de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

    C. M. Canessa & B. C. Rossier

  10. College de France, INSERM U36, 3 Rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris, France

    Pierre Corvol

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Shimkets, R.A., Warnock, D.G., Bositis, C.M. et al. Liddle’s syndrome: Heritable human hypertension caused by mutations in the ß subnit of the epithelial sodium channel. J Endocrinol Invest 18, 592–594 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03349775

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