Population analysis of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and the role of genetic ancestry in an admixed population
The vitamin D receptor (VDR) is an essential protein related to bone metabolism. Some VDR alleles are differentially distributed among ethnic populations and display variable patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD). In this study, 200 unrelated Brazilians were genotyped using 21 VDR single nucleotid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572011000300003 |