MSH2-Dependent Germinal CTG Repeat Expansions Are Produced Continuously in Spermatogonia from DM1 Transgenic Mice

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 629-637

  Savouret, Cédric ^a   Garcia Cordier, Corinne ^a   Megret, Jérôme ^a   Riele, Hein Te ^b   Junien, Claudine ^a   Gourdon, Geneviève ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN MSH2; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTG REPEAT; DM PROTEIN KINASE GENE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE; GERM CELL; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOSAICISM; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0346725953     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.2.629-637.2004     Document Type: Article

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