Instability of the FMR2 trinucleotide repeat region associated with expanded FMR1 alleles

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 447-455

  Brown, T C ^a,c   Tarleton, J C ^b,d   Go, R C P ^a   Longshore, J W ^b   Descartes, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Mission Genetics Center   (United States)

Author keywords

FMR1; FMR2; Fragile X; FRAXA; FRAXE; Instability

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME XQ; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HINDIII; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030735130     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19971231)73:4<447::AID-AJMG14>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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