Diverse chromosome breakage mechanisms underlie subtelomeric rearrangements, a common cause of mental retardation

Human Mutation

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-182

  Rooms, Liesbeth ^a   Reyniers, Edwin ^a   Kooy, R Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mental retardation; Non B DNA structures; Subtelomeric chromosome breakage

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33846915370     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.20421     Document Type: Article

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