Identification of two new alleles at the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) short tandem repeat (STR) locus results in seven polymorphic alleles in the Japanese population: Allele frequency data in comparison with Caucasian populations

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-228

  Takagi, Atsuko ^a   Mori, Atsuo ^a,b   Ikeda, Yasuyuki ^a   Yamamoto, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI PURE CHEMICALS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE;

ALU SEQUENCE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 8P; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030012438     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1996.0031     Document Type: Article

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