Myotonic dystrophy is associated with a reduced level of RNA from the DMWD allele adjacent to the expanded repeat

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1491-1497

  Alwazzan, Madawi ^a   Newman, Emma ^a   Hamshere, Marion G ^a   Brook, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA; DYSTROPHIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0032837927     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.8.1491     Document Type: Article

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