Novel nucleotide substitutions within the coding region of DNMT2 are in strong linkage disequilibrium in Caucasians and Japanese

Human Heredity

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 210-216

  Franchina, Maria ^a   Kay, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; DNA sequencing; Evolution; Linkage disequilibrium; Structural polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; HISTIDINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME BINDING; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOKINES; DNA; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035173107     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000053378     Document Type: Article

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