Human DNA sequence variation in a 6.6-kb region containing the melanocortin 1 receptor promoter

Genetics

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1253-1268

  Makova, Kateryna D ^a   Ramsay, Michele ^b   Jenkins, Trefor ^b   Li, Wen Hsiung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHIMPANZEE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GORILLA; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0034924340     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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