Demonstration of a founder effect and fine mapping of dominant optic atrophy locus on 3q28-qter by linkage disequilibrium method. A study of 38 British Isles pedigrees

Human Genetics

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-86

  Votruba, Marcela ^a   Moore, Anthony T ^b   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3Q; COLOR VISION; DATA BASE; EYE DISEASE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENEALOGY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0031900240     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050657     Document Type: Article

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