Trinucleotide repeats in the human genome: Size distributions for all possible triplets and detection of expanded disease alleles in a group of Huntington disease individuals by the Repeat Expansion Detection method

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Hofferbert, Sigrun ^a   Schanen, N Carolyn ^a   Chehab, Farid ^b   Francke, Uta ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; ALLELES; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0031032853     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.1.77     Document Type: Article

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