Population genetics and disease susceptibility: Characterization of central European haplogroups by mtDNA gene mutations, correlation with D loop variants and association with disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1835-1846

  Hofmann, Sabine ^a   Jaksch, Michaela ^a   Bezold, Reimar ^a   Mertens, Sabine ^a   Aholt, Simone ^a   Paprotta, Armin ^a   Gerbitz, Klaus Dieter ^a  

^a Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELAS SYNDROME; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 0030813676     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.11.1835     Document Type: Article

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