Expansion of an unstable trinucleotide CAG repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Nature Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 221-226

  Orr, Harry T ^a   Chung, Ming yi ^a   Banfi, Sandro ^b   Kwiatkowski, Thomas J ^b   Servadio, Antonio ^b   Beaudet, Arthur L ^b   McCall, Alanna E ^b   Duvick, Lisa A ^a   Ranum, Laura P W ^a   Zoghbi, Huda Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; REPETITIVE DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 6P; COSMID; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0027164698     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0793-221     Document Type: Article

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