Trinucleotide repeats are clustered in regulatory genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1053-1068

  Young, Elton T ^a   Sloan, James S ^a   Van Riper, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034049112     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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