Allele frequencies in a worldwide survey of a CA repeat in the first intron of the CFTR gene

Human Heredity

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-20

  Mateu, Eva ^a,b   Calafell, Francesc ^a,b   Bonné Tamir, Batsheva ^d   Kidd, Judith R ^e   Casals, Teresa ^c   Kidd, Kenneth K ^e   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c Institut de Recerca Oncologica   (Spain)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; CFTR gene; Dinucleotide short tandem repeats; DNA polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALLELES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0032970342     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022834     Document Type: Article

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