Genetic variation at the apoB 3' hypervariable region in a Serbian population

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 333-335

  Alavantić, Dragan ^a   Glišić, Sanja ^a   Erceg, Slaven ^a   Stupar, Milanko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

3' HVR; apoB; PCR; VNTR

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0030733024     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000484785     Document Type: Article

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