Comprehensive analysis of a large-scale screen for MEFV gene mutations: Do they truly provide a "heterozygote advantage" in Turkey?

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 475-482

  Berdeli, Afig ^a   Mir, Sevgi ^a   Nalbantoglu, Sinem ^a   Kutukculer, Necil ^a   Sozeri, Betül ^a   Kabasakal, Yasemin ^a   Cam, Sirri ^b   Solak, Mustafa ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Afyon Karahisar Kocatepe University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16P; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEFV GENE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY;

EID: 79960452410     PISSN: 19450265     EISSN: 19450257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2010.0146     Document Type: Article

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