Mini- and microsatellite expansions: The recombination connection

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 122-126

  Richard, Guy Franck ^a   Pâques, Frédéric ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TANDEM REPEAT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0034252264     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd031     Document Type: Article

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