Article
[Medical pathology due to trinucleotide repeats].
Gaceta medica de Mexico - 1 Jan 2000
Arenas-Aranda D, Peñaloza R, Salamanca-Gómez F
Abstract excerpt
Trinucleotide repeat expansion is responsible for ten human diseases described so far. Four types of repeats are involved in these expansions, with type, number and position in the gene varying from one disease to another. In some fragile sites, the trinucleotide repeat is found to be enlarged to 200 or more. Smaller expansions have been found within coding regions of some genes that are associated with...
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