Variation on a trinucleotide theme

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-384

  Yvert, Gaël ^a   Mandel, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ATAXIA; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0032928358     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7381     Document Type: Short Survey

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