A second nonsecretor allele of the blood group α(1,2)fucosyl-transferase gene (FUT2)

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-25

  Henry, Stephen ^a   Moilicone, Rosella ^b   Lowe, John B ^c   Samuelsson, Bo ^a   Larson, Göran ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYNESIA;

EID: 0030068036     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1996.tb00991.x     Document Type: Article

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