Intergeneration CAG expansion and contraction in a Chinese HD family

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 141 B, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 242-244

  Tang, Yanping ^a   Wang, Ying ^b   Yang, Ping ^b   Liu, Yuan ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Podolsky, Robert ^b   McIndoe, Richard ^b   Wang, Cong Yi ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction; Expansion; Germline; Huntington's disease (HD); Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Trinucleotide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CHINA; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 33645970699     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30261     Document Type: Article

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