Association of a bitter taste receptor mutation with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN)

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wooding, Stephen P ^a   Atanasova, Srebrena ^b   Gunn, Howard C ^a   Staneva, Rada ^c   Dimova, Invanka ^c   Toncheva, Draga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; RECEPTOR; TAS2R43 BITTER TASTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY; BLADDER CANCER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ALLELES; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; BALKAN NEPHROPATHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84867237029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-13-96     Document Type: Article

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