Allelic variation in the CNDP1 gene and its lack of association with longevity and coronary heart disease

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 817-820

  Zschocke, Johannes ^a   Nebel, Almut ^b   Wicks, Kate ^a   Peters, Verena ^a   El Mokhtari, Nour Eddine ^b   Krawczak, Michael ^b   van der Woude, Fokko ^c   Janssen, Bart ^a   Schreiber, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c The Fifth Medical Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Carnosinase; CNDP1; Coronary heart disease; Mutation

Indexed keywords

CNDP1 PROTEIN; LEUCINE; PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CARNOSINEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CORONARY DISEASE; DIPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33750144172     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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