Genes in the ureteric budding pathway: Association study on vesico-ureteral reflux patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  van Eerde, Albertien M ^a   Duran, Karen ^a   van Riel, Els ^a   de Kovel, Carolien G F ^a   Koeleman, Bobby P C ^a   Knoers, Nine V A M ^a   Renkema, Kirsten Y ^a   van der Horst, Henricus J R ^b   Bökenkamp, Arend ^b   van Hagen, Johanna M ^b   van den Berg, Leonard H ^c   Wolffenbuttel, Katja P ^d   van den Hoek, Joop ^d   Feitz, Wouter F ^e   de Jong, Tom P V M ^a   Giltay, Jacques C ^a   Wijmenga, Cisca ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYA1 GENE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GNB3 GENE; GREM1 GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATOR GENE; ROBO2 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TGFB1 GENE; UPK3A GENE; VEGFA GENE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NETHERLANDS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; URETER;

EYA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GREM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; ROBO2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TGFB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UPK3A PROTEIN, HUMAN; UROPLAKIN 3;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; URETER; UROPLAKIN III; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 84860436141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031327     Document Type: Article

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