Transgenic Mouse Models of Unstable Trinucleotide Repeats: Toward an Understanding of Disease-Associated Repoeat Size Mutation

Genetic Instabilities and Neurological Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 563-583

  Gomes Pereira, Mário ^a   Foiry, Laurent ^a   Gourdon, Geneviève ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369462-1/50037-5     Document Type: Chapter

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