Refinement of genetic localization of the Alstrom syndrome on chromosome 2p12-13 by linkage analysis in a North African family

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 658-661

  Macari, Françoise ^a   Lautier, Corinne ^a   Girardet, Anne ^b   Dadoun, Frédéric ^c   Darmon, Patrice ^c   Dutour, Anne ^c   Renard, Eric ^a   Bouvagnet, Patrice ^b   Claustres, Mireille ^b   Oliver, Charles ^c   Grigorescu, Florin ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXOKINASE;

ALLELE; ALSTROM SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 2P; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORTH AFRICA; OBESITY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; AFRICA, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CONSANGUINITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032406253     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050887     Document Type: Article

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