Segregation distortion of wild-type alleles at the Machado-Joseph disease locus: A study in normal families from the Azores islands (Portugal)

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-339

  Bettencourt, Conceição ^a   Fialho, Raquel Nunes ^b,c   Santos, Cristina ^a   Montiel, Rafael ^a   Bruges Armas, Jácome ^b,c   MacIel, Patrícia ^d   Lima, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b Hospital Santo Espirito de Angra do Heroesmo   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores; CAG repeats; MJD; SCA3; Segregation ratio distortion; Wild type alleles

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATXN3 GENE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORTUGAL; PROBABILITY; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AZORES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; HUMANS; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 41549158255     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10038-008-0261-7     Document Type: Article

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