Are there ethnic differences in deletions in the dystrophin gene?

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 152-157

  Banerjee, Minakshi ^a   Verma, Ishwar C ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Duchenne muscular dystrophy; ethnic differences; exonal deletions; multiplex PCR

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA PRIMERS; DYSTROPHIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031049169     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970120)68:2<152::AID-AJMG6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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