Molecular variants of luteinizing hormone in three populations of Southeast Asia

Human Heredity

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 232-234

  Ramanujam, Lakshmi ^a   Liao, Wu Xiang ^a   Roy, Ashim C ^a,b   Ng, Soon Chye ^a   Ratnam, Shan S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Luteinizing hormone; Polymerase chain reaction; Population genetics; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Southeast Asians

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUTANT; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ALLELES; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031926595     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022807     Document Type: Article

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