Polymorphisms in the human DNA repair gene XPF

Mutation Research - Mutation Research Genomics

Volumn 406, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 115-120

  Fan, Fan ^a   Liu, Cheng Pin ^a   Tavaré, Simon ^a   Arnheim, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human XPF gene; Mutation detection; Nucleotide diversity; Nucleotide excision repair; Single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA GLOBIN; DNA; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION REPAIR; EXON; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC STABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0032860299     PISSN: 13835726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5726(99)00008-4     Document Type: Article

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