Regional FMRP deficits and large repeat expansions into the full mutation range in a new Fragile X premutation mouse model

Gene

Volumn 395, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 125-134

  Entezam, Ali ^a   Biacsi, Rea ^a   Orrison, Bonnie ^b   Saha, Tapas ^a   Hoffman, Gloria E ^c   Grabczyk, Ed ^a   Nussbaum, Robert L ^b   Usdin, Karen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA instability; Full mutation; Repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34247637636     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.02.026     Document Type: Article

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