Mutations and haplotype diversity in 70 Portuguese G6PD-deficient individuals: An overview on the origin and evolution of mutated alleles

Haematologica

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1713-1714

  Manco, Licínio ^a,b   Gonçalves, Paula ^a   Antunes, Patrícia ^b   Maduro, Filomena ^c   Abade, Augusto ^b   Ribeiro, Maria Letícia ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c Hospital da Horta   (Portugal)

Author keywords

G6PD deficiency in Portugal; G6PD microsatellites; G6PD mutations; Haplotype analysis

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIPLOIDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXON; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; X CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PORTUGAL;

EID: 37049031034     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.11670     Document Type: Article

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