Population genetics of the FRAXE and FRAXF GCC repeats, and a novel CGG repeat, in Xq28

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 463-469

  Ritchie, Rachael J ^a,c   Chakrabarti, Lisa ^a   Knight, Samantha J L ^a,b   Harding, Rosalind M ^b   Davies, Kay E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

FRAXE; FRAXF; Microsatellite; Triplet repeat; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME XQ; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AFRICA; CHINA; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENGLAND; GENETICS, POPULATION; GREECE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INDIA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030819245     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19971231)73:4<463::AID-AJMG16>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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