Variation in the number of FMR1 microsatellite repeats in three subgroups of the Hellenic population

Human Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 621-629

  Syrrou, Maria ^a   Patsalis, Philippos C ^b   Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Alamanos, Yannis ^a   Pagoulatos, Gerassimos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

FMR1; Intrapopulation variation; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032104785     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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