A Huntington's disease CAG expansion at the murine Hdh locus is unstable and associated with behavioural abnormalities in mice

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 763-774

  Shelbourne, Peggy F ^a,d   Killeen, Nigel ^b   Hevner, Robert F ^c   Johnston, Heather M ^d   Tecott, Laurence ^c   Lewandoski, Mark ^c   Ennis, Margaret ^d   Ramirez, Lucia ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Iannicola, Carlo ^a,f   Littman, Dan R ^e   Myers, Richard M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0032949459     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.5.763     Document Type: Article

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