Sequence analysis of the human kallikrein gene locus identifies a unique polymorphic minisatellite element

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 285, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1321-1329

  Yousef, George M ^a,b   Bharaj, Bhupinder S ^a,b   Yu, He ^c   Poulopoulos, John ^a   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome 19; Human kallikrein locus; Hypervariable minisatellites; Kallikreins; Malignancy; Minisatellites; Polymorphis; Repeat elements

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA MINISATELLITE; KALLIKREIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHROMOSOME 19Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

EID: 0034801689     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5321     Document Type: Article

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