Vitamin D receptor homozygote mutant tt and bb are associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in the Iranian population

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Banoei, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Mirsaeidi, Mehdi Seyed ^b   Houshmand, Massoud ^a   Tabarsi, Payam ^c   Ebrahimi, Golnaz ^c   Zargari, Laleh ^c   Kashani, Baharak Houshiar ^a   Masjedi, Mohammad Reza ^c   Mansouri, Seyed Davood ^c   Ramirez, Julio ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IRAN; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADULT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 74649083972     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.05.001     Document Type: Letter

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