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Identification of a novel cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase allele, ALDH1A1*4.
Human genomics - 1 Jul 2009
Moore Shelley M, Liang Tiebing, Graves Tamara J, McCall Kevin M, Carr Lucinda G, Ehlers Cindy L
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This paper reports the identification of a novel cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 ( ALDH1A1 ) allele. One hundred and sixty-two Indo-Trinidadian and 85 Afro-Trinidadian individuals were genotyped. A novel ALDH1A1 allele, ALDH1A1*4 , was identified in an Indo-Trinidadian alcoholic with an A inserted at position -554 relative to the translational start site, +1. It was concluded that a wider cross-section of...
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