Segmental duplications: An 'expanding' role in genomic instability and disease

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 791-800

  Emanuel, Beverly S ^a,b   Shaikh, Tamim H ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HEREDITARY MOTOR AND SENSORY NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035487212     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35093500     Document Type: Review

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