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Interaction effects between estrogen receptor alpha and vitamin D receptor genes on age at menarche in Chinese women.
Acta pharmacologica Sinica - 1 Jul 2005
Xu Hong, Long Ji-Rong, Li Miao-Xin, Deng Hong-Wen
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AIM: To evaluate whether estrogen receptor alpha (ER-alpha) and vitamin D receptor (VDR) genes are associated with the age at menarche in Chinese women. METHODS: A total of 390 pre-menopausal Chinese women were genotyped at the ER-alpha PvuII, XbaI, and VDR ApaI loci using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). RESULTS: Neither the ER-alpha gene nor the VDR gene...
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