TNF microsatellite alleles in Brazilian chagasic patients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3334-3339

  Campelo, Viriato ^a   Dantas, Roberto O ^b   Simões, Renata T ^b   Mendes Junior, Celso T ^b   Sousa, Sandra M B ^b   Simões, Aguinaldo L ^b   Donadi, Eduardo A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Chagas' disease; Microsatellite repeats; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 35948988864     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9699-7     Document Type: Article

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