CTG trinucleotide repeat "big jumps": Large expansions, small mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 0488-0491

  Gomes Pereira, Mário ^a,b   Foiry, Laurent ^a,b   Nicole, Annie ^a,b   Huguet, Aline ^a,b   Junien, Claudine ^a,b   Munnich, Arnold ^a,b   Gourdon, Geneviève ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY SIZE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RNA SPLICING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 34247641372     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030052     Document Type: Article

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