Expandable DNA repeats and human disease

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7147, 2007, Pages 932-940

  Mirkin, Sergei M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

DISEASE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; PATHOGENICITY; RECOMBINATION;

CELL DIVISION; CELL REGENERATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 34250878426     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05977     Document Type: Review

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