Fragile X trinucleotide repeats from a normal population in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hereditas

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-190

  Sucharov, Carmen C ^a   Silva, Rosane ^a   Rondinelli, Edson ^a   Moura Neto, Rodrigo S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0032842622     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1999.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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