Genetic variation of FUT3 in Ghanaians, Caucasians, and Mongolians

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 959-966

  Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^b   Munkhtulga, Lkhagvasuren ^b   Iwamoto, Sadahiko ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUT3 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LEWIS BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 65349182447     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.02069.x     Document Type: Article

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