Lewis (FUT3) genotypes in two different Chinese populations

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 82-86

  Liu, Yu Hua ^a,b   Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Pang, Hao ^a,b   Wang, Baojie ^b   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese population; Lewis gene; (1,3 4)fucosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CHINESE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0032899884     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14415j     Document Type: Article

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