Type I cystinuria and its genetic basis in a population of Turkish school children

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 914-917

  Tanzer, Fatos ^a,c   Ozgur, Arzu ^a   Bardakci, Fevzi ^b  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cystinuria; Kidney; Mutation; rBAT; SLC3A1

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROTEIN; SCL3A1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTINURIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCREENING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; CHILD; CYSTINURIA; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; STUDENTS; TURKEY;

EID: 34548801397     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: 14422042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2007.01852.x     Document Type: Article

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