DNA polymorphisms in the 5'-flanking sequence of human ABO blood group genes and their association with the alleles for the common ABO phenotypes

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-225

  Shimada, Ichiroh ^a   Kominato, Yoshihiko ^a   Hata, Nobuhide ^a   Takizawa, Hisao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABO blood group; DNA polymorphisms; Gene evolution; Variable number of tandem repeats

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0033500288     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80041-8     Document Type: Article

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