A common Fanconi anemia mutation in black populations of sub-Saharan Africa

Blood

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3542-3544

  Morgan, Neil V ^b   Essop, Fahmida ^b   Demuth, Ilja ^b   De Ravel, Thomy ^b   Jansen, Stander ^b   Tischkowitz, Marc ^b   Lewis, Cathryn M ^b   Wainwright, Linda ^b   Poole, Janet ^b   Joenje, Hans ^b   Digweed, Martin ^b   Krause, Amanda ^b   Mathew, Christopher G ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FANCG GENE; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; NEGRO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 20944440508     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-10-3968     Document Type: Article

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