Anthropological features of the CFTR gene: Its variability in an African population

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-209

  Maria Ciminelli, Bianca ^a   Bombieri, Cristina ^b   Ciccacci, Cinzia ^a   Belpinati, Francesca ^b   Pompei, Fiorenza ^a   Maselli, Roberta ^a   Simporé, Jacques ^c   Pignatti, Pier Franco ^b   Modiano, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Centre de Recherche Biomoleculaire Pietro Annigoni CERBA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Degree of heterozygosity; Evolution rate; Haplotype; Linkage disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; POLYMORPHISM; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRON; MUTATION; NEGRO; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; BURKINA FASO; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EUROPE; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 79551475666     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2010.507554     Document Type: Article

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