De novo mutations and allelic diversity at minisatellite locus D7S22 investigated by allele-specific four-state MVR-PCR analysis

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2113-2120

  Andreassen, Rune ^a   Olaisen, Bjornar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; PRIMER DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; STEM CELL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0031731626     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.13.2113     Document Type: Article

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