Genetic analysis of the ferrochelatase gene in eight Japanese patients from seven families with erythropoietic protoporphyria

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 603-608

  Saruwatari, Hiroshi ^a   Ueki, Yuri ^a   Yotsumoto, Shinichi ^a   Shimada, Tokihiko ^a   Fukumaru, Seita ^a   Kanekura, Takuro ^a   Kanzaki, Tamotsu ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythropoietic protoporphyria; Ferrochelatase; Genetic analysis

Indexed keywords

FERROCHELATASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SPLICING; DONOR SITE; ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEME SYNTHESIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRON; JAPAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FERROCHELATASE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOPORPHYRIA, ERYTHROPOIETIC;

EID: 33748336486     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2006.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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