Models of Repair Underlying Trinucleotide DNA Expansion

Genetic Instabilities and Neurological Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 679-690

  Kovtun, I V ^a   McMurray, C T ^a  

^a MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369462-1/50044-2     Document Type: Chapter

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