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Association of the estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms with osteoporosis in the Mexican population.
Clinical genetics - 1 Dec 2007
Gómez R, Magaña J J, Cisneros B, Pérez-Salazar E, Faugeron S, Véliz D, Castro C, Rubio J, Casas L, Valdés-Flores M
Abstract excerpt
The estrogen receptor gene (ER alpha) has been implicated in the development of osteoporosis. In this study, the association of two ER alpha gene polymorphic markers (a TA dinucleotide repeat and a single nucleotide polymorphism, G2014A) with osteoporosis was tested in 70 osteoporotic women, 70 non-osteoporotic women and 500 subjects from the Mexican population. According to the genetic analysis of the Mexican...
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