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Codon 325 sequence polymorphism of the estrogen receptor alpha gene and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.
The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology - 1 Jul 2001
Jurada S, Marc J, Prezelj J, Kocijancic A, Komel R
Abstract excerpt
Estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) encoding gene is one of the candidate genes to be involved in the development of osteoporosis. Until now correlation between three ER gene polymorphisms (identified with PvuII, XbaI and BstUI) and bone mineral density (BMD) have been investigated. The results of these studies are contradictory. Thus the aim of our work was to search for new, yet unknown, and probably more...
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