Characterization of the poly-t variant in the tomm40 gene in diverse populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Linnertz, Colton ^a   Saunders, Ann M ^b   Lutz, Michael W ^b   Crenshaw, Donna M ^b   Grossman, Iris ^c   Burns, Daniel K ^c   Whitfield, Keith E ^a   Hauser, Michael A ^b   McCarthy, Jeanette J ^a   Ulmer, Megan ^b   Allingham, Rand ^b   Welsh Bohmer, Kathleen A ^b,d   Roses, Allen D ^a,b,d   Chiba Falek, Ornit ^a,b,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Cabernet Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CARRIER PROTEIN; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID; TOMM40 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GHANA; HAPLOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KOREA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSLOCASE OF THE OUTER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE GENE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INTRON; PROCEDURES;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; METHODS; POLY T; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 84857128928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030994     Document Type: Article

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