Is Rett syndrome caused by a triplet repeat expansion?

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-183

  Hofferbert, S ^a   Schanen, N C ^a   Budden, S S ^b   Francke, U ^a,c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Repeat Expansion Detection (RED) method; Rett syndrome; Trinucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0030879078     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-973697     Document Type: Article

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