Dynamic mutations: Where are they now?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 769, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-77

  Van Eyk, Clare L ^a   Richards, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; URACIL; DNA; POLYALANINE; POLYAMINOACID; POLYGLUTAMINE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CACNA1A GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; FRAGILE XA; FRAGILE XE; FRIEDRICH ATAXIA; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HUNTINGTON DISEASE LIKE 2; KENNEDY DISEASE; KLHL1 GENE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; SYMPTOM; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSCRIPTION; CAG REPEAT; DYNAMIC MUTATION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FRAGILE XE MENTAL RETARDATION SYNDROME; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUNTINGTON DISEASE LIKE 2 SYNDROME; HUNTINGTON DISEASE LIKE SYNDROME; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 84934442162     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5434-2_5     Document Type: Article

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