Antioxidant defense enzyme genes and asthma susceptibility: Gender-specific effects and heterogeneity in gene-gene interactions between pathogenetic variants of the disease

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Polonikov, Alexey V ^a   Ivanov, Vladimir P ^a   Bogomazov, Alexey D ^a   Freidin, Maxim B ^b   Illig, Thomas ^c,d   Solodilova, Maria A ^a  

^a KURSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE ENZYME; ENZYME; GENOMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIOXIDANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; EPISTASIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901793865     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/708903     Document Type: Article

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