Association between PRKCH gene polymorphisms and subcortical silent brain infarction

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 340-345

  Serizawa, M ^a   Nabika, T ^b   Ochiai, Y ^a   Takahashi, K ^b   Yamaguchi, S ^b   Makaya, M ^a   Kobayashi, S ^b   Kato, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genetics; Magnetic resonance imaging; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRKCH GENE; SCREENING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

EID: 47649085664     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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