Replacement of the myotonic dystrophy type 1 CTG repeat with 'non-CTG repeat' insertions in specific tissues

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 438-443

  Axford, Michelle M ^a,b   López Castel, Arturo ^a,c   Nakamori, Masayuki ^d   Thornton, Charles A ^d   Pearson, Christopher E ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 4Q; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEART; HUMAN; LIVER; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TARGETED GENE REPAIR;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 79960319981     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2010.085944     Document Type: Article

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