Molecular characterization of G6PD deficiency in Cyprus

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-30

  Drousiotou, Anthi ^a,b   Touma, Elias H ^c,e   Andreou, Nicoletta ^a   Loiselet, Jacques ^c   Angastiniotis, Michalis ^b   Verrelli, Brian C ^d,f   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^d  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b Thalassaemia Centre   (Cyprus)

^c SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e Haddad Hosp for the Rosary Sisters   (Lebanon)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyprus; G6PD deficiency; G6PD mutations

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; HISTIDINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRUS; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HEMIZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CYPRUS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PREVALENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042605046     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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