Phenylketonuria in costa rica: Preliminary spectrum of PAH mutations and their associations with highly polymorphic haplotypes

Human Heredity

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 128-131

  Santos, Maria ^a   Kuzmin, Alexei I ^c   Eisensmith, Randy C ^c   Goltsov, Alexei A ^c   Woo, Savio L C ^c,d   Barrantes, Ramiro ^a   De Céspedes, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE NIÑOS   (Costa Rica)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rican population; PAH haplotypes; PKU gene mutations

Indexed keywords

PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENYLKETONURIA;

EID: 0029926869     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000154340     Document Type: Article

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