Instability of highly expanded CAG repeats in mice transgenic for the Huntington's disease mutation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-200

  Mangiarini, Laura ^a   Sathasivam, Kirupa ^a   Mahal, Amarbirpal ^a   Mott, Richard ^b   Seller, Mary ^a   Bates, Gillian P ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOSAICISM; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSGENES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0031056685     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-197     Document Type: Article

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