The Region Coding for the Helix Termination Motif and the Adjacent Intron 6 of the Human Type I Hair Keratin Gene hHa2 Contains Three Natural, Closely Spaced Polymorphic Sites

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 544-548

  Winter, Hermelita ^a   Rogers, Michael A ^a   Mahr, Brigitte ^a   Cremer, Marion ^b   Krieg, Thomas ^c   Navsaria, Harshad A ^d   Leigh, Irene M ^d   Schweizer, Jürgen ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polymorphisms; helix

Indexed keywords

DNA; KERATIN; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR DISEASE; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NAIL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HUMANS; INTRONS; KERATINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029670152     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12343976     Document Type: Article

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