The Tunisian population history through the Crigler-Najjar type I syndrome

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 848-853

  Petit, François M ^a   Bézieau, Stéphane ^b   Gajdos, Vincent ^c   Parisot, Frédéric ^a   Scoul, Catherine ^b   Capel, Liliane ^a   Stozinic, Volodia ^a   Khrouf, Naïma ^d   M'Rad, Ridha ^e   Koshy, Abraham ^f   Mollet Boudjemline, Alix ^c   Francoual, Jeanne ^a   Labrune, Philippe ^c  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d Centre de Maternite et de Neonatologie Tunis   (Tunisia)

^e CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^f Lakeshore Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1A1;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIGLER NAJJAR SYNDROME; FAMILY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MARKER GENE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TUNISIA;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRIGLER-NAJJAR SYNDROME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MUTATION; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; TUNISIA;

EID: 45849141290     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201989     Document Type: Article

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