Instability of the octarepeat region of the human prion protein gene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Li, Baiya ^a,b   Qing, Liuting ^b   Yan, Jianqun ^a   Kong, Qingzhong ^b  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; OCTAREPEAT REGION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRION PROTEIN GENE; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPAIR; GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRION;

ANIMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIONS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 80054784559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026635     Document Type: Article

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