Association of the CALM1 core promoter polymorphism with knee osteoarthritis in patients of Greek origin

Genetic Testing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-265

  Poulou, Myrto ^a   Kaliakatsos, Marios ^a   Tsezou, Aspasia ^b   Kanavakis, Emmanuel ^a   Malizos, Konstantinos N ^b,c   Tzetis, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CALMODULIN 1 GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; CALMODULIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RISK FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 45549102864     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2007.0114     Document Type: Article

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