Identification of newly polymorphic intron 40 markers of the von Willebrand factor gene in a Japanese population

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 129-131

  Tamura, Akiyoshi ^a   Iwata, Misa ^a   Fukunishi, Shinya ^a   Nishio, Hajime ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polymorphism; Sequence; STR; von Willebrand factor (vWF) gene; vWA

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR; DNA; GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPANESE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; ALLELE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; JAPAN; MALE; PATERNITY; POPULATION GENETICS; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

ALLELES; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; JAPAN; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PATERNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASES;

EID: 63249132838     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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