Conserved domains and lack of evidence for polyglutamine length polymorphism in the chicken homolog of the Machado-Joseph disease gene product ataxin-3

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1444, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 299-305

  Linhartová, Irena ^a,b   Repitz, Marion ^a   Dráber, Pavel ^b   Nemec, Milos ^b   Wiche, Gerhard ^a   Propst, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ataxin 3; CAG triplet repeat; Machado Joseph disease; Microsatellite; Polyglutamine; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033574037     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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