Stability of a CTG/CAG trinucleotide repeat in yeast is dependent on its orientation in the genome

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2090-2098

  Freudenreich, Catherine H ^a   Stavenhagen, Jeffrey B ^a,b   Zakian, Virginia A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILENT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030895078     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.4.2090     Document Type: Article

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