Absence of disease phenotype and intergenerational stability of the CAG repeat in transgenic mice expressing the human Huntington disease transcript

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-185

  Goldberg, Y P ^a   Kalchman, M A ^a   Metzler, M ^a   Nasir, J ^a   Zeisler, J ^a   Graham, R ^a   Koide, H B ^a   O'Kusky, J ^b   Sharp, A H ^a   Ross, C A ^a   Jirik, F ^a   Hayden, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RNA; STEM CELLS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 9044229711     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.2.177     Document Type: Article

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