Article
The age of human mutation: genealogical and linkage disequilibrium analysis of the CLN5 mutation in the Finnish population.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 1996
Varilo T, Savukoski M, Norio R, Santavuori P, Peltonen L, Järvelä I
Abstract excerpt
Variant late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL) is an autosomal recessive progressive encephalopathy of childhood enriched in the western part of Finland, with a local incidence of 1 in 1500. We recently assigned the locus for vLINCL, CLN5, to 13q21.1-q32. In the present study, the...
Topics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13
- Female
- Finland
- Founder Effect
- Gene Frequency
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Mutation
- Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses
