Real-time polymerase chain reaction for genotyping of the transforming grow factor β1 polymorphism Thr263Ile in patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy and in a healthy Bulgarian population

Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 37-40

  Atanasova, S ^a   Von Ahsen, N ^b   Dimitrov, Tz ^a   Armstrong, V ^b   Oellerich, M ^b   Toncheva, Draga ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balkan endemic nephropathy; Real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Transforming grow factor 1 (TGF 1) polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ISOLEUCINE; THREONINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE EXCRETION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELTING POINT; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0242497944     PISSN: 13110160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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