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SUBMITTER: Sadeghi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8071280 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sadeghi Masoud M Golshah Amin A Godiny Mostafa M Sharifi Roohollah R Khavid Atefeh A Nikkerdar Nafiseh N Tadakamadla Santosh Kumar SK
Children (Basel, Switzerland) 20210415 4
Vitamin D participates in the calcification of enamel and dentin and the appropriate immune responses to oral microbial infections. We aimed to assess the association between the most common vitamin D receptor (<i>VDR</i>) polymorphisms (<i>ApaI,</i><i>FokI</i>, <i>TaqI</i>, <i>BsmI</i>, and <i>BglI</i>) and the risk of dental caries in children.<h4>Methods</h4>PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were comprehensively searched until 19 January 2021. Meta-analysi ...[more]