Alleviating transcript insufficiency caused by Friedreich's ataxia triplet repeats

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4930-4937

  Grabczyk, Ed ^a,b   Usdin, Karen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; FRATAXIN; GUANINE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RNA POLYMERASE; THYMINE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPLEX FORMATION; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0034672110     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.24.4930     Document Type: Article

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