Advances in mechanisms of genetic instability related to hereditary neurological diseases

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3785-3798

  Wells, Robert D ^a   Dere, Ruhee ^a   Hebert, Micheal L ^a   Napierala, Marek ^a   Son, Leslie S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MISMATCH REPAIR; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REVIEW;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; DNA REPLICATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 22244446185     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki697     Document Type: Article

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