β-Globin Gene Cluster Haplotypes in the Corsican and Sardinian Populations

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 855-871

  Latini, Veronica ^a   Vacca, Lucia ^a   Ristaldi, Maria Serafina ^b   Marongiu, Maria Franca ^b   Memmì, Marc ^c   Varesi, Laurent ^c   Vona, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Corsica; Haplotypes; RFLP DNA polymorphisms; Sardinia; globin cluster gene

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING;

EID: 1242300110     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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