Structural basis for triplet repeat disorders: A computational analysis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 918-929

  Baldi, Pierre ^a   Brunak, Søren ^b   Chauvin, Yves ^c   Pedersen, Anders Gorm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Net ID Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0033368269     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.11.918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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