Moderate intergenerational and somatic instability of a 55-CTG repeat in transgenic mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 190-192

  Gourdon, Geneviève ^a   Radvanyi, François ^b   Lia, Anne Sophie ^a   Duros, Chantal ^a   Blanche, Martine ^b   Abitbol, Marc ^c   Junien, Claudine ^a,d   Hofmann Radvanyi, Hélène ^a,d  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; COSMIDS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSGENES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031038809     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-190     Document Type: Article

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