Retrotransposon activation contributes to fragile X premutation rCGG-mediated neurodegeneration

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 57-65

  Tan, Huiping ^a,b   Qurashi, Abrar ^b   Poidevin, Mickael ^b   Nelson, David L ^c   Li, He ^a   Jin, Peng ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN A2; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN B1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE SILENCING; GYPSY GENE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROPOSON; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE; FEMALE; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A-B; HUMANS; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; RETROELEMENTS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 83455162755     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr437     Document Type: Article

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