A homozygous nonsense mutation (428G→A) in the human secretor (FUT2) gene provides resistance to symptomatic norovirus (GGII) infections

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 15351-15355

  Thorven, Maria ^a   Grahn, Ammi ^b   Hedlund, Kjell Olof ^a   Johansson, Hugo ^c   Wahlfrid, Christer ^c   Larson, Göran ^a   Svensson, Lennart ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUT2 GENE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONSENSE MUTATION; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CODON, NONSENSE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FECES; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GASTROENTERITIS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; NOROVIRUS; SALIVA;

NOROVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 29744442306     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.24.15351-15355.2005     Document Type: Article

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