Clustering of Caucasian leber hereditary optic neuropathy patients containing the 11778 or 14484 mutations on an mtDNA lineage

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 381-387

  Brown, Michael D ^a   Sun, Fengzhu ^a   Wallace, Douglas C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0031034482     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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