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Common variation in vitamin D pathway genes predicts circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D Levels among African Americans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Signorello Lisa B, Shi Jiajun, Cai Qiuyin, Zheng Wei, Williams Scott M, Long Jirong, Cohen Sarah S, Li Guoliang, Hollis Bruce W, Smith Jeffrey R, Blot William J
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D is implicated in a wide range of health outcomes, and although environmental predictors of vitamin D levels are known, the genetic drivers of vitamin D status remain to be clarified. African Americans are a group at particularly high risk for vitamin D insufficiency but to date have been virtually absent from studies of genetic predictors of circulating vitamin D levels. Within the Southern Community...
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