Mendelian segregation of normal CAG trinucleotide repeat alleles at three autosomal loci

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 258-259

  MacMillan, J C ^a   Voisey, J ^a   Healey, S C ^a   Martin, N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Segregation; Transmission; Triplet repeats

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0032985563     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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