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[Vitamin D receptor and its abnormality in human diseases].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Jul 1998
Ozono K
Abstract excerpt
The vitamin D receptor(VDR) belongs to the nuclear hormone receptor super-family, and modulates the transcription of target genes in response to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3[1,25(OH)2D3]. The discovery of the cDNA for the human VDR revealed that the VDR contains 427 or 424 amino acids because it has two initiation sites. The human VDR gene has 8 coding exons and 3 alternative 5' noncoding exons spanning over 75 kb of...
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