Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis patients in northwest Greece

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sioka, Chrissa ^a   Papakonstantinou, Stylianos ^a,b   Markoula, Sofia ^a   Gkartziou, Foteini ^a   Georgiou, Athanasia ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Pelidou, Sygliti Henrietta ^a,b   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a,b   Fotopoulos, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; CALCITRIOL RECEPTOR; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAQ POLYMERASE;

EID: 79955561855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14775751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-5751-10-3     Document Type: Article

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