Association of a polymorphism in the ornithine decarboxylase gene with whole blood polyamine concentrations in a non-smoking healthy population

Journal of Health Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 406-412

  Kondo, Takaaki ^a   Hamajima, Nobuyuki ^b   Nishio, Kazuko ^b   Ishida, Yoshiko ^b   Imai, Ryota ^a   Ueyama, Jun ^a   Torita, Shoko ^a   Kasai, Yurie ^a   Yamamoto, Ryoko ^a   Suzuki, Koji ^c   Ito, Yoshinori ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Covariance analysis; Lifestyle related disease; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamine; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; SMOKING;

EID: 34547557584     PISSN: 13449702     EISSN: 13475207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1248/jhs.53.406     Document Type: Article

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