Mechanisms of transcriptional dysregulation in repeat expansion disorders

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1123-1128

  Groh, Matthias ^a   Silva, Lara Marques ^a   Gromak, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fragile X syndrome; Friedreich's ataxia; R loop; Repeat expansion disease; RNA DNA hybrid; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CAG REPEAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPANSION REPEAT DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DISORDER; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL; ATAXIA; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84905822639     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20140049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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