Evaluating the role of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms on susceptibility to tuberculosis among Iranian patients: A case-control study

Tuberkuloz ve Toraks

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-153

  Marashian, Sayed Mehran ^a   Farnia, Parissa ^a   Seyf, Shima ^a   Anoosheh, Saber ^a   Velayati, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Polymorphisms; TB; VDR

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

APAI GENE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BSMI GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTROPHORESIS; FOKI GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TAQI GENE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 77955283446     PISSN: 04941373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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