Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in women from southern Brazil and association with vitamin D-binding protein levels and GC-DBP gene polymorphisms

• Betânia Rodrigues Santos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Physiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Nathália Cruz Costa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Physiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Thais Rasia Silva,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Karen Oppermann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical School, Universidade de Passo Fundo and Hospital São Vicente de Paulo, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Jose Antonio Magalhães,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Gislaine Casanova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Division of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Poli Mara Spritzer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spritzer@ufrgs.br

  Affiliations Gynecological Endocrinology Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Physiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6734-7688

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