Increase of FMRP expression, raised levels of FMR1 mRNA, and clonal selection in proliferating cells with unmethylated fragile X repeat expansions: A clue to the sex bias in the transmission of full mutations?

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 842-850

  Salat, U ^a   Bardoni, B ^b,c   Wohrle, D ^a   Steinbach, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c Biologia Generale e Genetica Medica   (Italy)

Author keywords

FMRP; Fragile X syndrome; Spermatogenesis; Triplet repeat instability

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0033737169     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.37.11.842     Document Type: Article

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