The effect of common uromodulin variants on urinary protein level and gene transcription

Kidney International

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 410-411

  Rampoldi, Luca ^a   Köttgen, Anna ^b   Devuyst, Olivier ^c  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TAMM HORSFALL GLYCOPROTEIN;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UMOD GENE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIC ACID; UROMODULIN;

EID: 84881130289     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2013.162     Document Type: Letter

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