Cardiovascular risk-associated allele frequencies for 15 genes in healthy elderly French and Chinese

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 817-822

  Xia, Yongjing ^a   Baum, Larry ^b   Pang, C P ^b   Siest, Gérard ^a   Visvikis, Sophie ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ageing; Allelic frequency; Cardiovascular disease; Multi locus assay; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; LIPID;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIPID METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 26844433940     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14346621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2005.137     Document Type: Article

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