The guanine-thymine dinucleotide repeat polymorphism within the tenascin-C gene is associated with Achilles tendon injuries

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1016-1021

  Mokone, Gaonyadiwe G ^a   Gajjar, Mamta ^a   September, Alison V ^a   Schwellnus, Martin P ^a   Greenberg, Jacquie ^a   Noakes, Timothy D ^a   Collins, Malcolm ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Genetics; Risk factor; Rupture; Tendinopathy

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; TENASCIN; THYMINE;

ABO GENE; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 9Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TENASCIN C GENE; TENDON INJURY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GUANINE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RUPTURE; TENASCIN; THYMINE;

EID: 21444454731     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504271986     Document Type: Article

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