Estrogen receptor α gene haplotypes and diplotypes in the risk of stroke

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; SEX HORMONE; ESR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 55749083535     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.523233     Document Type: Letter

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