Polymorphism of the h allele and the population frequency of sporadic nonfunctional alleles

Transfusion

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 284-290

  Wagner, F F ^a   Flegel, W A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b DRK Blutspendezentrale Ulm   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031001398     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1997.37397240210.x     Document Type: Article

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