CONCLUSION : We demonstrated that individuals with the presence of D allele for the -1607 promoter polymorphism of MMP1 are about 1.5 times more susceptible to develop DDD when compared with those having G allele only .
O O O O O O O O O O B-SequenceVariant I-SequenceVariant I-SequenceVariant I-SequenceVariant I-SequenceVariant O O O B-GeneOrGeneProduct O O O O O O O O B-DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeature O O O O O O O O O