Recent advances in the molecular analysis of inherited disease.

doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15619.x

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Recent advances in the molecular analysis of inherited disease.

European journal of biochemistry - 12 Dec 1990

Malcolm S

Abstract excerpt

Many important human genes have been cloned during the last ten years. In some cases, using reverse genetic techniques [Orkin, S. H. (1986) Cell 47, 845-850], disease-causing genes have been isolated whose product was previously unknown. Important examples include the dystrophin protein which, wh...

Topics

Chromosome Aberrations
Chromosome Deletion
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Humans
Mosaicism
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
X Chromosome

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