Genetic variation in the promoter region of the basic fibroblast growth factor gene

Human Immunology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 374-377

  Beránek, Michal ^a   Tschöplová, Svatava ^a   Kañková, Kateřina ^a   Kuhrová, Věra ^b   Vácha, Jiří ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

BFGF; Genetic polymorphism; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037369468     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(02)00820-0     Document Type: Article

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