Genomic architecture of human 17q21 linked to frontotemporal dementia uncovers a highly homologous family of low-copy repeats in the tau region

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1753-1762

  Cruts, Marc ^a   Rademakers, Rosa ^a   Gijselinck, Ilse ^a   van der Zee, Julie ^a   Dermaut, Bart ^a   de Pooter, Tim ^a   de Rijk, Peter ^a   Del Favero, Jurgen ^a   van Broeckhoven, Christine ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FAMILY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 26444608642     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi182     Document Type: Article

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