Frequency of two human glutathione-S-transferase omega-1 polymorphisms (E155 deletion and E208K) in Ovambo and Japanese populations using the PCR-based genotyping method

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 621-624

  Fujihara, Junko ^a   Kunito, Takashi ^b   Takeshita, Haruo ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenic metabolism; Glutathione S transferase omega 1; Japanese; Monomethylarsonate reductase; Ovambos; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ADRENOCHROME; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPANESE; MUTATION RATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 34248194346     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.128     Document Type: Article

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