Genetic Variants at 20p11 Confer Risk to Androgenetic Alopecia in the Chinese Han Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Liang, Bo ^a   Yang, Chunjun ^a   Zuo, Xianbo ^a   Li, Yang ^a   Ding, Yantao ^a   Sheng, Yujun ^a   Zhou, Fusheng ^a   Cheng, Hui ^a   Zheng, Xiaodong ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Zhu, Zhengwei ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Fu, Xuhui ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Dong, Ying ^a   Duan, Dawei ^a   Tang, Xianfa ^a   Tang, Huayang ^a   Gao, Jinping ^a   Sun, Liangdan ^a   Yang, Sen ^a   Zhang, Xuejun ^a   more..

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS; XEDAR RECEPTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883194493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071771     Document Type: Article

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