Variants in the nestin gene and coronary heart disease

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1538-1539

  Meng, Weihua ^a   Patterson, Chris C ^a   Belton, Christine ^a   Hughes, Anne ^a   McKeown, Pascal P ^a,b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Nestin; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

NESTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 50449099919     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0262     Document Type: Article

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