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1: Genomics. 1994 Mar 15;20(2):327-8.Click here to read Links

Localization of the glucagon receptor gene to human chromosome band 17q25.

Menzel S, Stoffel M, Espinosa R 3rd, Fernald AA, Le Beau MM, Bell GI.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.

The gene encoding the human glucagon receptor (GCGR) was mapped to chromosome band 17q25 by fluorescence in situ hybridization to metaphase chromosomes. An Alu variable poly(A) DNA polymorphism was identified in this gene. Studies in the CEPH families showed significant evidence of linkage between DNA polymorphism and markers localized to the distal long arm of chromosome 17.

PMID: 8020989 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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