Genetic variants of sex hormone-binding globulin and their biological consequences

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 316, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-65

  Xita, Nectaria ^a   Tsatsoulis, Agathocles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Polymorphisms; Sex hormone binding globulin SHBG gene

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BODY MASS; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 72249086811     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.08.025     Document Type: Review

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