A survey of FRAXE allele sizes in three populations

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 415-419

  Zhong, Nan ^a   Ju, Weina ^a   Curley, Dennis ^a   Wang, Daowen ^a   Pietrofesa, James ^a   Wu, Guanyan ^b   Shen, Yan ^b   Pang, Calvin ^c   Poon, Priscilla ^c   Liu, Xixian ^d   Gou, Shen ^d   Kajanoja, Eliisa ^e   Ryynänen, Markku ^e   Dobkin, Carl ^a   Brown, W Ted ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

FRAXE; polymorphism; population genetics; sequence; triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FINLAND; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW YORK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SYNDROME; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0029984116     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960809)64:2<415::AID-AJMG36>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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