Molecular variants of luteinizing hormone in three populations of Southeast Asia.

doi:10.1159/000022807

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Molecular variants of luteinizing hormone in three populations of Southeast Asia.

Human heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Ramanujam L, Liao W X, Roy A C, Ng S C, Ratnam S S

Abstract excerpt

Three populations of Southeast Asia comprising 191 Chinese, 121 Malays and 150 Indians, were studied with respect to two recently described mutant luteinizing hormone (LH) variants using molecular techniques. One of these variants had Trp8 to Arg8 and Ile15 to Thr15 replacements in exon 2 of the...

Topics

Alleles
Asia, Southeastern
Asian People
Female
Gene Frequency
Genetics, Population
Humans
Luteinizing Hormone
Male
Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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