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The interaction between aggrecan gene VNTR polymorphism and cigarette smoking in predicting incident symptomatic intervertebral disc degeneration.
Connective tissue research - 1 Oct 2010
Cong Lin, Pang Hao, Xuan Dwight, Tu Guanjun
Abstract excerpt
An association between the aggrecan variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism and the disc degeneration has been previously reported in Finnish men, and smoking had previously been suspected of causing disc degeneration. However, the interaction between aggrecan gene VNTR polymorphism and smoking in symptomatic intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) has not been well studied. To examine the interaction...
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