A regulatory SNP causes a human genetic disease by creating a new transcriptional promoter.

We describe a pathogenetic mechanism underlying a variant form of the inherited blood disorder alpha thalassemia. Association studies of affected individuals from Melanesia localized the disease trait to the telomeric region of human chromosome 16, which includes the alpha-globin gene cluster, but n...

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Main Authors: De Gobbi, M, Viprakasit, V, Hughes, J, Fisher, C, Buckle, V, Ayyub, H, Gibbons, R, Vernimmen, D, Yoshinaga, Y, de Jong, P, Cheng, J, Rubin, E, Wood, W, Bowden, D, Higgs, D
格式: Journal article
語言:English
出版: 2006