The fate of 12 recessive mutations in a single village

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 202-208

  Zlotogora, Joël ^a   Hujerat, Y ^c   Barges, S ^b   Shalev, S A ^c,d   Chakravarti, A ^e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Family Physicians   (Israel)

^c HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consanguinity; Founder effect; Genetic counselling; Mutation

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN ARSA; PROTEIN GBA; PROTEIN GBJ2; PROTEIN HBB; PROTEIN MEFV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FAMILY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GAUCHER DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENEALOGY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; INBREEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; RELATIVE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THALASSEMIA; ADULT; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISRAEL; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RECESSIVE GENE; RELIGION;

ADULT; ARABS; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; ISLAM; ISRAEL; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE;

EID: 34047247337     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2006.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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