Differential expression of normal and mutant Huntington's disease gene alleles

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 183-190

  Persichetti, Francesca ^a   Carlee, Leone ^a   Faber, Peter W ^a   McNeil, Sandra M ^a   Ambrose, Christine M ^a   Srinidhi, Jayalakshmi ^a   Anderson, MaryAnne ^a   Barnes, Glenn T ^a   Gusella, James F ^a,b   MacDonald, Marcy E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 4P; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030175161     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1996.0018     Document Type: Article

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