Small increase in triplet repeat length of cerebellum from patients with myotonic dystrophy

Human Genetics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 138-140

  Ishii, Sumikazu ^a   Nishio, Takeshi ^b   Sunohara, Nobuhiko ^b   Yoshihara, Tsuyoshi ^c   Takemura, Kazuo ^c   Hikiji, Kazumasa ^c   Tsujino, Seuchi ^a   Sakuragawa, Norio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c SRL INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLUM; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CEREBELLUM; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0029886294     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050176     Document Type: Article

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