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Vitamin D Receptor Is a Sepsis-Susceptibility Gene in Chinese Children.
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research - 24 Oct 2021
He Danni, Lu Xiuxiu, Li Wei, Wang Yuanyuan, Li Ning, Chen Yuanmei, Zhang Lipeng, Niu Wenquan, Zhang Qi
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BACKGROUND We designed an association study among 267 cases of children with sepsis and 283 healthy controls, by genotyping 9 variants in the VDR gene. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a hospital-based, case-control, genetic association study. In addition to 3 genetic modes of inheritance, haplotype and interaction analyses were employed to examine the prediction of VDR gene for pediatric sepsis. Effect-size...
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