Increased expression of aphidicolin-induced common fragile sites in Tourette syndrome: The key to understand the genetics of comorbid phenotypes?

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Seminars in Medical Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-30

  Gericke, George S ^a,c   Simonic, Ingrid ^a   Cloete, Elma ^a   Becker, Piet J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c Dept Hum Genet and Devmtl Biol ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aphidicolin; Common fragile sites; Gene mapping; Tandem repeat sequences; Tourette syndrome

Indexed keywords

APHIDICOLIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; APHIDICOLIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 0029964332     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960216)67:1<25::AID-AJMG4>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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