Kuivaniemi is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothniaregion. The municipality has a population of 2,036 (2003) and covers an area of 960.11 km² of which 30.70 km² is water. The population density is 2.1 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... Northern Ostrobothnia is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
Tromp, G. Kuivaniemi, H., Romanic, A. and Prockop, D.J. A mutation in the gene for type III procollagen (COL3A1) in a family with aortic aneurysms.
Madhatheri, S.L. Tromp, G. Gustavson, K.-H. and Kuivaniemi, H. ubstitution of glutamic acid for glycine 589 in the triple-helical domain of type III procollagen (COL3A1) in a family with variable phenotype of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV.
Asano, E., Kuivaniemi, H., Huq, A. Tromp, G. Behen, M., Rothermel, R., Herron, J., and Chugani, D. A study on novel polymorphisms in the upstream region of vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor type 2 gene in autism.
Kuivaniemi's laboratory is interested in the genetic risk factors of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).
Kuivaniemi, H., Yoon, S., Shibamura, H., Skunca, M., Vongpunsawad, S., and Tromp, G. Primer-extension preamplified DNA is a reliable template for genotyping.
Kuivaniemi, H., and Shibamura, H. Candidate genes for abdominal aortic aneurysms.