High levels of somatic DNA diversity at the myotonic dystrophy type 1 locus are driven by ultra-frequent expansion and contraction mutations

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2450-2463

  Higham, Catherine F ^a,b   Morales, Fernando ^a,c   Cobbold, Christina A ^b   Haydon, Daniel T ^a,b   Monckton, Darren G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BAYES THEOREM; DNA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; HUMANS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 84861112204     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds059     Document Type: Article

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