The common -866G/A polymorphism of the UCP2 gene in healthy Iranians compared with world populations

Human Biology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-110

  Akrami, Seyed Mohammad ^a,b   Heidari, Javad ^a   Heshmat, Ramin ^a   Amiri, Parvin ^a   Fakhrzadeh, Hossein ^a   Pajouhi, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

866G A polymorphism; Austrians; Danes; Diabetes; Germans; HDL cholesterol; Iranians; Italians; Japanese; Obesity; PCR RFLP; UCP2 allele frequency; Uncoupling protein 2 gene (UCP2)

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UCP2 GENE;

EID: 35548962788     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2007.0019     Document Type: Article

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