Genetics of VEGF serum variation in human isolated populations of Cilento: Importance of VEGF polymorphisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ruggiero, Daniela ^a   Dalmasso, Cyril ^b   Nutile, Teresa ^a   Sorice, Rossella ^a   Dionisi, Laura ^a   Aversano, Mario ^a   Bröet, Philippe ^b   Leutenegger, Anne Louise ^b,c   Bourgain, Catherine ^b   Ciullo, Marina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; ITALY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN VARIANT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME 6; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROGNOSIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79951790803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016982     Document Type: Article

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