Msh2 deficiency prevents in vivo somatic instability of the CAG repeat in Huntington disease transgenic mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 471-473

  Manley, Kevin ^a   Shirley, Thomas L ^a,b   Flaherty, Lorraine ^a,b   Messer, Anne ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032708840     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70598     Document Type: Article

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