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Vitamin D Receptor Gene Variants Susceptible to Osteoporosis in Arab Post-Menopausal Women.
Current issues in molecular biology - 27 Sept 2021
Ansari Mohammed G A, Mohammed Abdul Khader, Wani Kaiser A, Hussain Syed D, Alnaami Abdullah M, Abdi Saba, Aljohani Naji J, Al-Daghri Nasser M
Abstract excerpt
Post-menopausal osteoporosis (PMO) is a multifactorial bone disorder in elderly women. Various vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene variants have been studied and associated with osteoporosis in other populations, but not in a homogenous Arab ethnic group. Herein, the current study explores the association between VDR polymorphisms and susceptibility to osteoporosis in Saudi postmenopausal women. In total, 600 Saudi...
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