Long uninterrupted CGG repeats within the first exon of the human FMR1 gene are not intrinsically unstable in transgenic mice

Genomics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-240

  Lavedan, Christian ^a,c   Grabczyk, Ed ^b   Usdin, Karen ^b   Nussbaum, Robert L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EXON; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032104278     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5299     Document Type: Article

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