The increased incidence of the RET p.Gly691Ser variant in French-Canadian vesicoureteric reflux patients Is not replicated by a larger study in Ireland

Human Mutation

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Darlow, John M ^a   Molloy, Niamh H N ^a   Green, Andrew J ^a   Puri, Prem ^a,b   Barton, David E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Duplex kidneys; RET; SNP; Vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RET;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUTATOR GENE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLYCINE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERINE; SIBLINGS; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 66749170668     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21009     Document Type: Article

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