Association study of human VN1R1 pheromone receptor gene alleles and gender

Genetic Testing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 128-132

  Mitropoulos, Constantinos ^a   Papachatzopoulou, Adamantia ^b   Menounos, Panagiotis G ^c   Kolonelou, Christina ^b   Pappa, Magda ^b   Bertolis, George ^d   Gerou, Spiros ^e   Patrinos, George P ^a,f  

^a Asclepion Genetics   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

^d AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e Laboratories Analysis   (Greece)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN VN1R1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; SIMULATION; VN1R1 GENE;

CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; PHEROMONES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34447282424     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2006.0516     Document Type: Article

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