Vitamin D receptor gene haplotypes and susceptibility to HIV-1 infection in injection drug users

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-410

  De La Torre, Manuel Sánchez ^a   Torres, Carmen ^b   Nieto, Gema ^a,e   Vergara, Salvador ^d   Carrero, Antonio José ^c   Macías, Juan ^d   Pineda, Juan Antonio ^d   Caruz, Antonio ^b   Fibla, Joan ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c Hosp Univ Ciudad de Jaén   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^e NEODIAGNOSTICA SL   (Spain)

^f Universitat de Lleida Facultat de Medicina Sabadell   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 39349087725     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/525043     Document Type: Article

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