Article
Human VNTR mutation and sex.
EXS - 1 Jan 1993
Olaisen B, Bekkemoen M, Hoff-Olsen P, Gill P
Abstract excerpt
Seven hypervariable VNTR loci have been studied in about 1200 parent/child pairs about equally divided between the sexes. Mutations were observed with all seven probes, the total number being 71. Fourty-four of these involved increased fragment length. Gains in fragment length were on average lar...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Child
- DNA
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Probes
- Mutation
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sex Characteristics
