Meiotic stability and genotype – phenotype correlation of the trinucleotide repeat in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 301-304

  La Spada, Albert R ^a   Roling, Daniel B ^a   Harding, Anita E ^b   Warner, Carolyn L ^c   Spiegel, Roland ^d   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, Irena ^e   Yee, Woon Chee ^f   Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MILLARD FILLMORE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; DNA;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; X CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEIOSIS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0027023516     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1292-301     Document Type: Article

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