Estrogen receptor &#945; is not a candidate gene for metabolic syndrome in Caucasian elderly subjects.

Hoteit, Maha; Arabi, Asma; Habib, Robert; Mahfouz, Rami; Baddoura, Rafic; Halaby, Georges; El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ghada

Estrogen receptor α is not a candidate gene for metabolic syndrome in Caucasian elderly subjects.

Hoteit, Maha; Arabi, Asma; Habib, Robert; Mahfouz, Rami; Baddoura, Rafic; Halaby, Georges; El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ghada.

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Hoteit M; Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, WHO Collaborating Center for Metabolic Bone Disorders, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.

Metabolism ; 63(1): 50-60, 2014 Jan.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24140101

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Estrogen Receptor alpha/genetics; Metabolic Syndrome/genetics; Overweight/complications; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; White People/genetics; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biomarkers/blood; Female; Genotype; Humans; Lebanon; Logistic Models; Male; Metabolic Syndrome/blood; Obesity/complications; Polymerase Chain Reaction

Key words

AHA/NHLBI; ANOVA; Analysis of Variance; BMI; Body Mass Index; Bp; CS(MS); Components; Cumulative metabolic syndrome components count; DNA; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Diplotypes; ER α; Estrogen Receptor alpha; Estrogen Receptor α; Genotypes; HDL; High density lipoprotein; MENA; Metabolic syndrome; Middle East and North Africa; NHANES; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; OR [95% CI]; Odd ratio [95% Confidence Interval]; PCR; Polymerase chain reaction; RFLP; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; The American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; base pair (bp)

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Metabolic Syndrome / White People / Estrogen Receptor alpha / Overweight Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: En Journal: Metabolism Year: 2014 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Lebanon

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