Vitamin C deficiency and scurvy are not only a dietary problem but are codetermined by the haptoglobin polymorphism

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1397-1400

  Delanghe, Joris R ^a   Langlois, Michel R ^a   De Buyzere, Marc L ^a   Torck, Mathieu A ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; HAPTOGLOBIN;

ALLELE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIET; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIPID OXIDATION; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SCURVY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASCORBIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DIET; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPTOGLOBINS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCURVY;

EID: 34547613192     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2007.088658     Document Type: Review

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