Determination of cag repeat length in the androgen-receptor gene using frozen serum

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 301-304

  Sartor, Oliver ^a   Zheng, Qiang ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; EXONS; GUANINE; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031024322     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00549-3     Document Type: Article

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