Genotyping of five single nucleotide polymorphisms in the OCA2 and HERC2 genes associated with blue-brown eye color inthe Japanese population

Cell Biochemistry and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 323-327

  Iida, Reiko ^a   Ueki, Misuzu ^a   Takeshita, Haruo ^b   Fujihara, Junko ^b   Nakajima, Tamiko ^c   Kominato, Yoshihiko ^c   Nagao, Masataka ^d   Yasuda, Toshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eye color; Genotyping; HERC2; Japanese; OCA2; PCR RFLP; Population data; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HECT DOMAIN AND RLD2 PROTEIN; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM TYPE II PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HERC2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OCA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ASIAN; GENETICS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYE COLOR; GENOTYPE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 69449096885     PISSN: 02636484     EISSN: 10990844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbf.1572     Document Type: Article

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