Linkage disequilibrium mapping places the gene causing familial Mediterranean fever close to D16S246

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-534

  Levy, Ernesto N ^a   Shen, Yang ^b   Kupelian, Annie ^c   Kruglyak, Leonid ^d   Aksentijevich, Ivona ^a   Pras, Elon ^a   Balow Jr , James E ^a   Linzer, Brett ^a   Chen, Xiaoguang ^c   Shelton, David A ^e   Gumucio, Deborah ^e   Pras, Mordechai ^f   Shohat, Mordechai ^g   Rotter, Jerome I ^c   Fischel Ghodsian, Nathan ^c   Richards, Robert I ^b   Kastner, Daniel L ^a,h  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f HELLER INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^g RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 16P; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; ARABS; ARMENIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; JEWS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOROCCO;

LURIA;

EID: 19144370332     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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