Does SLC30A4 (ZNT4) gene exon 5 915 T-C alteration play a role in neural tube defects?

Trace Elements and Electrolytes

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 266-269

  Akar, N ^a,b   Akar, E ^a   Arac B ^a   Ulu, A ^a   Ekim, M ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Koru Mah   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Neural tube defects; SLC30A4; Zinc; ZNT4

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXON; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZNT4 GENE;

EID: 33750388470     PISSN: 09462104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/tep23266     Document Type: Article

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