DNA sequence variation of the human ABO-secretor locus (FUT2) in New Guinean populations: Possible early human migration from Africa

Human Genetics

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 534-541

  Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Ishida, Takafumi ^b   Tachida, Hidenori ^c   Wang, Baojie ^a,d   Pang, Hao ^a,d   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Soemantri, Augustinus ^e   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDONESIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYNESIA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SAMOA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AFRICA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; NEW GUINEA; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PRIMATES;

EID: 0242438537     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-003-1013-6     Document Type: Article

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