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Association of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism with periodontal diseases in Japanese and Chinese.
Nucleic acids research. Supplement (2001) - 1 Jan 2001
Tachi Y, Shimpuku H, Nosaka Y, Kawamura T, Shinohara M, Ueda M, Imai H, Ohura K, Sun J, Meng H, Cao C
Abstract excerpt
We examined whether polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene are associated with the incidence of adult periodontitis (AP) and early-onset periodontitis (EOP) in case-controlled studies of Japanese and Chinese subjects. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in the VDR gene detected by digestion with Taq I were found to be significantly associated with the occurrence of AP or EOP, suggesting that the...
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