Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency has become a major public health problem. It’s known that the effects of vitamin D are made by its receptors. VDR gene polymorphisms in susceptibility to different diseases demonstrated in many studies. The polymorphisms of VDR are ApaI, TaqI, FokI, and BsmI. BsmI is the most extensively studied polymorphism. In our study, the aim is to show the frequency of VDR BsmI gene polymorphisms and to show the relationship between polymorphisms a...