Expression of a novel missense mutation found in the A4GALT gene of Amish individuals with the p phenotype

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-487

  Hellberg, Åsa ^b   Schmidt Melbye, Anne Christine ^b   Reid, Marion E ^b   Olsson, Martin L ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 ALPHA GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMISH; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP P SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELES; ANTIGENS, TUMOR-ASSOCIATED, CARBOHYDRATE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 39749190733     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01552.x     Document Type: Article

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