Ethnicity and myotonic dystrophy: A possible explanation for its absence in sub-Saharan Africa

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-65

  Goldman, A ^a,b   Ramsay, M ^a   Jenkins, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030052440     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1996.tb01172.x     Document Type: Article

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