Five novel missense mutations of the Lewis gene (FUT3) in African (Xhosa) and Caucasian populations in South Africa

Human Genetics

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 675-680

  Pang, Hao ^a   Liu, Yuhua ^a   Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Jia, Jingtao ^a   Schlaphoff, Terry ^b   Du Toit, Emette 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

AMINO ACID; ENZYME; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0031903543     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050760     Document Type: Article

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