Von Willebrand factor short sequence repeat locus 2 (intron 40) consists of three polymorphic subloci

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-180

  Othman, Maha ^a   Elbatarny, Hisham S ^a   Byrne, Christopher D ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Denise Frances ^b,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intron 40; Polymorphic marker; Short tandem repeats; Von Willebrand factor; VWF 2 locus

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 33947660034     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097660     Document Type: Article

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