Evidence against an X-linked locus close to DXS7 determining visual loss susceptibility in British and Italian families with leber hereditary optic neuropathy

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 741-748

  Sweeney, M G ^a   Davis, M B ^a   Lashwood, A ^a   Brockington, M ^a   Toscano, A ^b   Harding, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Policlinico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DNA RECOMBINATION; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ITALY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VISION DISORDERS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0026693837     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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