Dinucleotide repeat polymorphisms within the Flt-1 gene in minimal change nephropathy

European Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 321-323

  Parry, R G ^a   Gillespie, K M ^a   Clark, A G B ^b   Mathieson, P W ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RECEPTOR GENE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REFERENCE VALUES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 0032872758     PISSN: 09607420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2370.1999.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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