Expansion of GAA triplet repeats in the human genome: Unique origin of the FRDA mutation at the center of an Alu

Genomics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-383

  Clark, Rhonda M ^a   Dalgliesh, Gillian L ^a   Endres, Dan ^b   Gomez, Mariluz ^a   Taylor, Jim ^a   Bidichandani, Sanjay I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu element; Expansion; Friedreich ataxia; GAA; Human genome; Instability; Premutation; Primate evolution; Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GAA TRIPLET REPEAT; GENE; GENE FRDA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 1242293782     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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