CAC - The neglected repeat

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 237-242

  Sertedaki, Amalia ^a,b   Lindsay, Susan ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030025332     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950180311     Document Type: Article

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