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Convenient and quantitative determination of the frequency of a mutant allele using solid-phase minisequencing: application to aspartylglucosaminuria in Finland.
Genomics - 1 Mar 1992
Syvänen A C, Ikonen E, Manninen T, Bengtström M, Söderlund H, Aula P, Peltonen L
Abstract excerpt
Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) is a recessively inherited lysosomal disease caused by inadequate aspartylglucosaminidase (AGA) activity. The disease is prevalent in the genetically isolated Finnish population. We have used a new method, solid-phase minisequencing, to determine the frequency of two missense mutations in the AGA gene in this population. In samples from 70% of the Finnish AGU families, we found that...
Topics
- Acetylglucosamine
- Alleles
- Aspartylglucosylaminase
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Finland
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Genetic Techniques
- Humans
- Leukocytes
