Trinucleotide instability: A repeating theme in human inherited disorders

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 201-209

  Gusella, James F ^a   MacDonald, Marcy E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragile X syndrome; Huntington's disease; Myotonic dystrophy; Spinobulbar muscular atrophy; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

CHROMOSOME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0029873571     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.47.1.201     Document Type: Review

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