Molecular characterization of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene defect in the Kuwaiti population

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1144-1147

  Alfadhli, Suad ^a   Kaaba, Salim ^a   Elshafey, Alaa ^b   Salim, Matra ^a   Alawadi, Anwar ^a   Bastaki, Layla ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ARABS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 24144447375     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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