Instability of CGG repeats in transgenic mice

Genomics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-157

  Baskaran, Sujatha ^a   Datta, Sonal ^b   Mandal, Arundhati ^c   Gulati, Neerja ^c   Totey, Satish M ^c   Anand, Rajesh R ^c   Brahmachari, Vani ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

CGG repeats; Fragile X syndrome; Instability; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0036990028     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2002.6813     Document Type: Article

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