Evidence of a linkage disequilibrium between polymorphisms in the human estrogen receptor α gene and their relationship to bone mass variation in postmenopausal Italian women

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2043-2050

  Becherini, Lucia ^a   Gennari, Luigi ^a   Masi, Laura ^a   Mansani, Riccardo ^a   Massart, Francesco ^a,b   Morelli, Annamaria ^a   Falchetti, Alberto ^a   Gonnelli, Stefano ^c   Fiorelli, Gianna ^a   Tanini, Annalisa ^a   Brandi, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; THYMIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; EXON; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTRON; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION SITE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE DENSITY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; ITALY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0034641607     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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