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Mapping of the wet/dry earwax locus to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 16.
Lancet (London, England) - 8 Jun 2002
Tomita Hiroaki, Yamada Koki, Ghadami Mohsen, Ogura Takako, Yanai Yoko, Nakatomi Katsumi, Sadamatsu Miyuki, Masui Akira, Kato Nobumasa, Niikawa Norio
Abstract excerpt
Human earwax is a one-gene trait comprising two phenotypically distinct forms--wet and dry. This trait is attributed to secretory products of the ceruminous apocrine glands, and frequencies of phenotypes vary between ethnic groups. We did linkage analysis of eight Japanese families segregating earwax dimorphism. We assigned the earwax locus within a approximately 7.42-cM region between the loci D16S3093 and...
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