Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms and stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-

  Markoula, Sofia ^a,b   Lazaros, Leandros ^a   Xita, Nectaria ^a   Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; LETTER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 51649114424     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151591     Document Type: Letter

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