Low enzymatic activity haplotypes of the human catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: Enrichment for marker SNPs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Nackley, Andrea G ^a   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^b   Lambert, Jason E ^a   Conrad, Mathew S ^a   Gibson, Dustin G ^a   Spiridonov, Alexey N ^c   Satterfield, Sarah K ^a   Diatchenko, Luda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; RNA; VALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 65249101239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005237     Document Type: Article

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