The genetics of response to estrogen treatment

Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-49

  Langdahl, Bente L ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bone mass; Estrogen; Genetics; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; SCLEROSTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRUCTURE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 76549111917     PISSN: 17248914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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