Positive selection of a pre-expansion CAG repeat of the human SCA2 gene

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 404-412

  Yu, Fuli ^a   Sabeti, Pardis C ^b   Hardenbol, Paul ^c   Fu, Qing ^a   Fry, Ben ^b   Lu, Xiuhua ^a   Ghose, Sy ^a   Vega, Richard ^a   Perez, Ag ^a   Pasternak, Shiran ^a   Leal, Suzanne M ^a   Willis, Thomas D ^c   Nelson, David L ^a   Belmont, John ^a   Gibbs, Richard A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ParAllele BioScience   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME MAP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; UNITED STATES;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATIONS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; UTAH;

EID: 55449105229     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010041     Document Type: Article

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