Gilbert's syndrome: High frequency of the (TA)7 TAA allele in India and its interaction with a novel CAT insertion in promoter of the gene for bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 gene

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2269-2275

  Farheen, Shabana ^a   Sengupta, Sanghamitra ^a   Santra, Amal ^b   Pal, Suparna ^b   Dhali, Gopal Krishna ^b   Chakravorty, Meenakshi ^c   Majumder, Partha P ^a   Chowdhury, Abhijit ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

DNA resequencing; Luciferase reporter assay; UGT1A1 gene; Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; LUCIFERASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GILBERT DISEASE; GLUCURONIDATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 33646252012     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i14.2269     Document Type: Article

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