Genotype and allele frequency of the 27-bp tandem repeat polymorphism in the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene in Chinese population

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1093-1097

  Lu, Ping ^a,b   Lü, Xing ^a   Xing, Rui Yun ^a   Sun, Qi Yun ^c   Han, Li ^c   Wu, Su Hua ^c   Lan, Hong ^c   Zheng, Xiao Fei ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^b Military Medical College   (China)

^c North Taiping Road Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Gene polymorphism; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0035748104     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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