Ethnic variation in genotype frequencies of δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD)

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 236-239

  Fujihara, Junko ^a   Agusa, Tetsuro ^a   Yasuda, Toshihiro ^b   Soejima, Mikiko ^c   Kato, Hideaki ^d   Panduro, Arturo ^e   Koda, Yoshiro ^c   Kimura Kataoka, Kaori ^a   Takeshita, Haruo ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e Old Civil Hospital of Guadalajara   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD); Africans; Asians; Ethnic variation; Mexicans; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; NEGRO; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; MEXICO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

EID: 70449521096     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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