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Association study of four activity SNPs of CYP3A4 with the precocious puberty in Chinese girls.
Neuroscience letters - 24 Jun 2005
Xin Xiujuan, Luan Xiaohui, Xiao Junhua, Wei Dongzhi, Wang Jianhui, Lu Daru, Yang Shengli
Abstract excerpt
CYP3A4 plays an important role in the metabolism of a variety of endogenous and exogenous compounds. Earlier studies revealed that a high-activity variation of the CYP3A4 gene, CYP3A4*1B is significantly associated with the precocious puberty in girls. Other three variations, CYP3A4*4, CYP3A4*5 and CYP3A4*6, which were found in a study carried out in a Chinese population in Taiwan, were reported to down-regulate...
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