Chromosome fragility and the abnormal replication of the FMR1 locus in fragile X syndrome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2940-2952

  Yudkin, Dmitry ^a,c   Hayward, Bruce E ^a   Aladjem, Mirit I ^b   Kumari, Daman ^a   Usdin, Karen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FMR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE REPLICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURNER SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; METABOLISM; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA REPLICATION; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84899900382     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu006     Document Type: Article

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