Associations between the two serum proteins haptoglobin and transferrin and leukaemia

Human Heredity

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 144-150

  Mitchell, R J ^a   Carzino, R ^a   Janardhana, V ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disease association; Haptoglobin groups; Leukaemia; Transferrin subtypes; Woolf test

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ALLELES; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0023898027     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000153775     Document Type: Article

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