Vitamin D receptor alleles predict growth and bone density in girls

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 488-494

  Tao, Chang ^a   Yu, Tony ^a   Garnett, Sarah ^a   Briody, Julie ^a   Knight, John ^b   Woodhead, Helen ^a   Cowell, Christopher T ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b New Children's Hospital

Author keywords

Growth; Prepubertal children; Vitamin D receptor alleles; Volumetric bone mineral density

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

EID: 0031735379     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.79.6.488     Document Type: Article

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