Codon-usage variants in the polymorphic (GGN)(n) trinucleotide repeat of the human androgen receptor gene

Human Genetics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-46

  Lumbroso, Rose ^a   Beitel, Lenore K ^a   Vasiliou, D Marie ^a,b   Trifiro, Mark A ^a,b   Pinsky, Leonard ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031441453     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050583     Document Type: Article

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