Expansion of GAA trinucleotide repeats in mammals

Genomics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-67

  Clark, Rhonda M ^a   Bhaskar, Sanjeev S ^a   Miyahara, Masaki ^a   Dalgliesh, Gillian L ^a   Bidichandani, Sanjay I ^a  

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

Author keywords

Expansion; Friedreich ataxia; GAA trinucleotide repeat; Genome; Mammal; Premutation

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AMOEBOZOA; ARTHROPODA; ATAXIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 29344436029     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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