Instability of CAG and CTG trinucleotide repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3382-3387

  Miret, Juan José ^a,b   Pessoa Brandão, Luis ^a,b   Lahue, Robert S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030947319     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.6.3382     Document Type: Article

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