Reply to EA Langan

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1504-1505

  Farrar, Mark D ^a   Felton, Sarah J ^a   Rhodes, Lesley E ^a   Kift, Richard ^a   Webb, Ann R ^a   Berry, Jacqueline L ^a   Mughal, M Zulf ^b   Vail, Andy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; MELANIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHYTATE; VITAMIN D;

ASIAN; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM INTAKE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDERMIS; ETHNICITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SKIN COLOR; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 84861563857     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.037689     Document Type: Letter

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