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SUBMITTER: Fang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6965387 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fang Yu Y Yu Bin B Yang Yong Y Liu Gang G Tu Su Yi La SY
International journal of clinical and experimental pathology 20170801 8
Degenerative disc disease is a continuous degeneration process of intervertebral discs. We performed a case-control study to investigate the association between 16 common SNPs of VDR and degenerative disc disease risk in a Chinese population. A total of 482 pairs of patients with degenerative disc disease and controls were collected between May 2014 and May 2016. The genotyping of VDR rs1544410, rs2239181, rs2107301, rs2239179, rs2189480, rs3819545, rs2239186, rs2254210, rs2238136, rs4760648, rs ...[more]