Transgenic mice carrying large human genomic sequences with expanded CTG repeat mimic closely the DM CTG repeat intergenerational and somatic instability

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1185-1194

  Seznec, Hervé ^a   Lia Baldini, Anne Sophie ^b   Duros, Chantal ^a   Fouquet, Coralie ^a   Lacroix, Céline ^a   Hofmann Radvanyi, Hélène ^c   Junien, Claudine ^a   Gourdon, Geneviève ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPERM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0034194141     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.8.1185     Document Type: Article

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