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Radiographic progression of lumbar spine disc degeneration is influenced by variation at inflammatory genes: a candidate SNP association study in the Chingford cohort.
Spine - 1 Nov 2005
Valdes Ana M, Hassett Geraldine, Hart Deborah J, Spector Tim D
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STUDY DESIGN: A candidate gene association study in a longitudinal cohort. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between polymorphisms at 25 candidate genes and progression of individual radiographic features of lumbar disc degeneration (LDD). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: LDD is characterized radiographically by the presence of osteophytes and disc space narrowing and is known to have a genetic component....
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