Allele-Specific Amplification of Exon 7 in the Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) Genes for Molecular Diagnosis of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Genetic Testing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 325-327

  Simsek, Mehmet ^a,b   Al Bulushi, Talal ^a   Shanmugakonar, Muralitharan ^a   Al Barwani, Hameeda S ^a   Bayoumi, Riad ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b Department of Food Science and Nutrition   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; AGAROSE; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ALLELES; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; EXONS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 1042289660     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109065703322783699     Document Type: Article

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