Analysis of helicase gene mutations in Japanese Werner's syndrome patients

Human Genetics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-193

  Goto, Makaoto ^a   Imamura, Osamu ^b   Kuromitsu, Junro ^b   Matsumoto, Takehisa ^b   Yamabe, Yukako ^b   Tokutake, Yoshiki ^b   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^b   Mason, Brian ^c   Drayna, Dennis ^c   Sugawara, Minoru ^b   Sugimoto, Masanobu ^b   Furuichi, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Ohtsuka Hospital   (Japan)

^b AGENE Research Institute   (Japan)

^c Mercator Genetics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WERNER SYNDROME;

DNA HELICASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0031018953     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050336     Document Type: Article

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