Arylamine N-acetyltransferases

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Websites

• http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/pharmacology/NAT.htmlOfficial website for NAT nomenclature and summary of new genes.
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• http://www.sgc.utoronto.ca/SGC-WebPages/sgc-toronto.phpWebsite has links to newly determined structures once released.
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• http://www.leprosyhistory.orgAn obituary: Gordon A Ellard, PhD 1936 – 2002.
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• http://www.hapmap.org/Official site of haplotype mapping project.
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• http://genolist.pasteur.fr/TubercuList/Genome information on Mycobacterium tuberculosis provides direct links to other mycobacterial sequences.
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