Vitamin D Receptor Translation Initiation Codon Polymorphism and Markers of Osteoporotic Risk in Older African-American Women

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The presence of a polymorphism at the translation initiation site of the vitamin D receptor gene is associated with low bone mineral density in postmenopausal mexican-American women

✍ Coleman Gross; T. Ross Eccleshall; Peter J. Malloy; Marie Luz Villa; Robert Marc 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 🌐 English ⚖ 531 KB

We examined the association of bone mineral density (BMD) with a polymorphism in the gene encoding the vitamin D receptor (VOR) that causes a change in the predicted protein sequence. The polymorphism results from a C-to-T transition and creates an initiation codon (ATG) three codons proximal to a d