Gene organization and rearrangements at the human Rhesus blood group locus revealed by fiber-FISH analysis

Human Genetics

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 164-171

  Suto, Yumiko ^a,b   Ishikawa, Yoshihide ^a   Hyodo, Hironobu ^a   Uchikawa, Makoto ^a   Juji, Takeo ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 1P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; LYMPHOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; TELOMERE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; PHENOTYPE; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 0034114775     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390051024     Document Type: Article

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