Structures of trinucleotide repeats in human transcripts and their functional implications

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 5463-5468

  Jasinska, Anna ^a   Michlewski, Gracjan ^a   de Mezer, Mateusz ^a   Sobczak, Krzysztof ^a   Kozlowski, Piotr ^a   Napierala, Marek ^a,b   Krzyzosiak, Wlodzimierz J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b EAST TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; REVIEW;

ALLELES; HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0141974939     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg767     Document Type: Article

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