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Lumbar disk degeneration disease and aggrecan gene polymorphism in northern Iran.
Biochemical genetics - 1 Aug 2010
Mashayekhi Farhad, Shafiee Gholamreza, Kazemi Masood, Dolati Parviz
Abstract excerpt
Aggrecan is the major component of intervertebral disk matrix proteoglycan with multiple functional domains. To understand the role of aggrecan polymorphism in a part of exon 12 encoding the CS1 domain in lumbar disk degeneration disease, we have analyzed genomic DNA from 71 patients with the disease and 108 healthy individuals in northern Iran. The AGC1 alleles were determined by PCR followed by gel...
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