Sorsby's fundus dystrophy in the British Isles: Demonstration of a striking founder effect by microsatellite-generated haplotypes

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 92-101

  Wijesuriya, Sujeewa D ^a   Evans, Kevin ^a   Jay, Marcelle R ^a   Davison, Charles ^a   Weber, Bernhard H F ^b   Bird, Alan C ^a   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a   Gregory, Cheryl Y ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DYSTROPHY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; SORSBYS FUNDUS DYSTROPHY; SORSBYS FUNDUS SYNDROME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0029881620     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.2.92     Document Type: Article

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