The tyrosinase-positive oculocutaneous albinism locus maps to chromosome 15q11.2-q12.

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  American Journal of Human Genetics

• Publication date

  1992-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  PMID 1415228PMCID PMC1682821
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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