High frequency of the Ala481Thr mutation of the P gene in the Japanese population [5]

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 118 A, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 402-403

  Suzuki, Tamio ^a   Miyamura, Yoshinori ^a   Tomita, Yasushi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; MELANOGENESIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; P GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0037541343     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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