Association analysis between polymorphisms of the lymphotoxin-α gene and myocardial infarction in a Japanese population [4]

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 197-198

  Iwanaga, Yoshitaka ^a   Ono, Koh ^a   Takagi, Shuichi ^a   Terashima, Masahiro ^a   Tsutsumi, Yoshiaki ^a   Mannami, Toshifumi ^a   Yasui, Naomi ^a   Goto, Yoichi ^a   Nonogi, Hiroshi ^a   Iwai, Naoharu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA ISOLATION; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOTOXIN ALPHA GENE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 9144222757     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2003.09.026     Document Type: Letter

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