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EVIDENCE presented here and in the report by Elsevier et al.1 mutually establishes the assignment of the human gene for galactokinase (EC 2.7.1.6), the enzyme which converts galactose to galactose-1-phosphate, to chromosome 17. This assignment is based on a syntenic relationship between the genes for thymidine kinase and galactokinase.
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ORKWISZEWSKI, K., TEDESCO, T. & CROCE, C. Assignment of the human gene for galactokinase to chromosome 17. Nature 252, 60–62 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252060a0
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