Alanine tracts: The expanding story of human illness and trinucleotide repeats

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-58

  Brown, Lucia Y ^a   Brown, Stephen A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BLEPHAROPHIMOSIS; CLEIDOCRANIAL DYSPLASIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; HAND FOOT GENITAL SYNDROME; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SYNDACTYLY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; X LINKED MENTAL RETARDATION;

EID: 0347418199     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2003.11.002     Document Type: Review

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