Congenital analbuminemia attributable to compound heterozygosity for novel mutations in the albumin gene

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1256-1258

  Campagna, Filomena ^a   Fioretti, Francesca ^a   Burattin, Marco ^a   Romeo, Stefano ^a   Sentinelli, Federica ^a   Bifolco, Maura ^a   Sirinian, Maria Isabella ^a   Del Ben, Maria ^a   Angelico, Francesco ^a   Arca, Marcello ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALBUMINEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDER; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MUTATION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 23444449312     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.048561     Document Type: Article

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