A region in the dystrophin gene major hot spot harbors a cluster of deletion breakpoints and generates double-strand breaks in yeast

FASEB Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Sironi, Manuela ^a,b   Pozzoli, Uberto ^a   Comi, Giacomo P ^c   Riva, Stefania ^a   Bordoni, Andreina ^c   Bresolin, Nereo ^a,c   Nag, Dilip K ^b,d  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

DMD BMD; Yeast meiosis

Indexed keywords

BREAKPOINT CLUSTER REGION PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN; DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTRON; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST; CYTOLOGY; DNA DAMAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MAMMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DYSTROPHIN; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; NEUROBLASTOMA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 33845564364     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.05-5635fje     Document Type: Article

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