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Extremely high prevalence of DNASE1*1 allele in African populations.
Cell biochemistry and function - 1 Jan 2000
Takeshita Haruo, Fujihara Junko, Soejima Mikiko, Koda Yoshiro, Yasuda Toshihiro, Nakajima Tamiko
Abstract excerpt
The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I), designated as DNASE1 (NCBI SNP number; 1053874), in exon 8 (A2317G) has been shown to be associated with liver disease, colorectal carcinoma, and gastric carcinoma in Japanese patients. In this study, we investigated the frequency of the DNASE1 polymorphism in Ghanaian (n = 96) and Xhosa (n = 78) populations and compared the results with...
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