Estimation of carrier frequency of a 2,7 kb deletion allele of the p gene associated with OCA2 in African-Americans

Human Mutation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 370-373

  Durham Pierre, Donna ^a   King, Richard A ^b   Naber, John M ^c   Laken, Steve ^b   Brilliant, Murray H ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0030011888     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(1996)7:4<370::aid-humu15>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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