RNA structure of trinucleotide repeats associated with human neurological diseases

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 5469-5482

  Sobczak, Krzysztof ^a   de Mezer, Mateusz ^a   Michlewski, Gracjan ^a   Krol, Jacek ^a   Krzyzosiak, Wlodzimierz J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PROBE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEREDODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0142009656     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg766     Document Type: Article

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