Brief report: Overrepresentation of the N363S variant of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in patients with bilateral adrenal incidentalomas

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2796-2799

  Majnik, Judit ^a   Patocs, Attila ^a   Balogh, Katalin ^a   Toth, Miklos ^a   Gergics, Peter ^a   Szappanos, Agnes ^a   Mondok, Agnes ^a   Borgulya, Gabor ^a   Panczel, Pal ^a   Prohaszka, Zoltan ^a   Racz, Karoly ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HETEROZYGOTE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 33745705505     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2006-0066     Document Type: Article

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