Microsatellite and trinucleotide-repeat evolution: Evidence for mutational bias and different rates of evolution in different lineages

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1386, 1999, Pages 1095-1099

  Rubinsztein, David C ^a   Amos, Bill ^b   Cooper, Gillian ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; Microsatellite; Mutation; Trinucleotide repeat; Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033614763     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0465     Document Type: Article

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