Chemical modifiers of unstable expanded simple sequence repeats: What goes up, could come down

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 598, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 15-34

  Gomes Pereira, Mário ^a   Monckton, Darren G ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b Anderson College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical modifier; DNA mismatch repair; Huntington disease; Myotonic dystrophy; Somatic mutation; Triplet repeat

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APHIDICOLIN; AZACITIDINE; CAFFEINE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; EMETINE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MIMOSINE; MITOMYCIN C; MITOXANTRONE; NOVOBIOCIN; REPETITIVE DNA; RHODAMINE 6G;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOSAICISM; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AGING; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS;

ATAXIA;

EID: 33744937952     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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