A prevalent POLG CAG microsatellite length allele in humans and African great apes

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 492-502

  Rovio, Anja T ^a   Abel, Josef ^b   Ahola, Arja L ^c   Andres, Aida M ^d   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^d   Blancher, Antoine ^e   Bontrop, Ronald E ^f   Chemnick, Leona G ^g   Cooke, Howard J ^h   Cummins, James M ⁱ   Davis, Heidi A ^g   Elliott, David J ^h,s   Fritsche, Ellen ^b   Hargreave, Timothy B ^j   Hoffman, Susan M G ^k   Jequier, Anne M ^l   Kao, Shu Huei ^m   Kim, Heui Soo ⁿ   Marchington, David R ^o   Mehmet, Denise ⁱ   Otting, Nel ^f   Poulton, Joanna ^o   Ryder, Oliver A ^g   Schuppe, Hans Christian ^p   Takenaka, Osamu ^q   Wei, Yau Huei ^m   Wichmann, Lars ^c   Jacobs, Howard T ^a,r   more..

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^f BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^g INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^k MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l National Yang Ming University ^*  (Australia)

^m NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁿ Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^o UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^p JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^s NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA; GLUTAMINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 2542438552     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00335-004-3049-x     Document Type: Article

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