SLC45A2 variations in Indian oculocutaneous albinism patients

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1406-1411

  Sengupta, Mainak ^a   Chaki, Moumita ^a   Arti, N ^a   Ray, Kunal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYSTINE; CYTOSINE; GLYCINE; GUANINE; ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NUCLEOTIDE; SERINE; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 45 MEMBER A2; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INTRONS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34547879611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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