Extensive polymorphism of the FUT2gene in an African (Xhosa) population of South Africa

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 204-210

  Liu, Yuhua ^a   Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Pang, Hao ^a   Schlaphoff, Terry ^b   Du Toit, Ernette D ^b   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Medical School   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; GALACTOSIDE 2 ALPHA L FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSIDE 2-ALPHA-L-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CODON; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; STOP CODON; BASE PAIRING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NEGRO;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; BASE PAIRING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031595630     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050808     Document Type: Article

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