Cloning, characterization and properties of plasmids containing CGG triplet repeats from the FMR-1 gene

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 614-626

  Shimizu, Miho ^a,c   Gellibolian, Robert ^a   Oostra, Ben A ^b   Wells, Robert D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

CGG; DNA structure; Expansion; Fragile X syndrome; Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029983269     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0273     Document Type: Article

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