Length-dependent gametic CAG repeat instability in the Huntington's disease knock-in mouse

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-122

  Wheeler, Vanessa C ^a   Auerbach, Wojtek ^b   White, Jacqueline K ^a,c   Srinidhi, Jayalakshmi ^a   Auerbach, Anna ^b   Ryan, Angela ^a   Duyao, Mabel P ^a,d   Vrbanac, Vladimir ^a   Weaver, Meredith ^a   Gusella, James F ^a   Joyner, Alexandra L ^b   MacDonald, Marcy E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d CELERA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXON; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIVER; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032938295     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.1.115     Document Type: Article

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