Single sperm analysis of the CAG repeats in the gene for Machado-Joseph disease (MJD1): Evidence for non-Mendelian transmission of the MJD1 gene and for the effect of the intragenic CGG/GGG polymorphism on the intergenerational instability

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1063-1068

  Takiyama, Y ^a   Sakoe, K ^a   Soutome, M ^a   Namekawa, M ^a   Ogawa, T ^a   Nakano, I ^a   Igarashi, S ^b   Oyake, M ^b   Tanaka, H ^b   Tsuji, S ^b   Nishizawa, M ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MACHADO-JOSEPH DISEASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 8544224974     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.7.1063     Document Type: Article

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