The role of AGG interruptions in fragile X repeat expansions: A twenty-year perspective

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Latham, Gary J ^a   Coppinger, Justine ^a   Hadd, Andrew G ^a   Nolin, Sarah L ^b  

^a ASURAGEN INC   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Diagnostic tests; FMR1; Fragile X syndrome; Repeat expansion diseases; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

AGG INTERRUPTION REPEAT; ALLELE; CGG REPEAT; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; FMR1 GENE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUTATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 84906234645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00244     Document Type: Short Survey

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