Truncated forms of the androgen receptor are associated with polyglutamine expansion in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 121-127

  Butler, Rachel ^a,c   Leigh, P Nigel ^a   McPhaul, Michael J ^b   Gallo, Jean Marc ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMINE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; DNA TRANSFECTION; EXON; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BINDING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031985869     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.1.121     Document Type: Article

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