Genetic mapping of glclc, the human gene encoding the catalytic subunit of γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, to chromosome band 6p12 and characterization of a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat within its 5’ untranslated region

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-16

  Walsh, A C ^a   Li, W ^b   Rosen, D R ^a   Lawrence, D A ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030466877     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134447     Document Type: Article

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