The Iranian Human Mutation Gene Bank: A data and sample resource for worldwide collaborative genetics research

Human Mutation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 146-150

  Najmabadi, Hossein ^a   Neishabury, Maryam ^a   Sahebjam, Farhad ^a   Kahrizi, Kimia ^a   Shafaghati, Yousef ^a   Nikzat, Nushin ^a   Jalalvand, Maryam ^a   Aminy, Farahnaz ^a   Hashemi, Susan Bany ^a   Moghimi, Babak ^a   Reza Noorian, Ali ^a   Jannati, Ali ^a   Mohammadi, Mehrdad ^a   Javan, Khalil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Database; DNA bank; Genetic; Iranian; Mutation bank; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; IRAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALASSEMIA;

CONSANGUINITY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; IRAN; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC;

IRANIA;

EID: 0037262315     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.10164     Document Type: Article

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