Direct detection of novel expanded trinucleotide repeats in the human genome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 135-139

  Schalling, Martin ^a,c   Hudson, Thomas J ^a   Buetow, Kenneth H ^b   Housman, David E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 18; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TECHNIQUE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DNA LIGASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN; LOD SCORE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PEDIGREE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0027256423     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0693-135     Document Type: Article

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