Competing Interests: The authors declared no competing interests. Monogenic hypertension is caused by single gene mutations and accounts for a spectrum of familial forms of elevated blood pressure ...

Notably, although the majority of patients with hypertension are primary and polygenic, there are some patients with monogenic hypertension, in which a causative genetic mutation is responsible ...

The most common form, essential hypertension, results from the complex interplay between genetic predisposition and environmental influences. In contrast, monogenic (mendelian) forms of ...