NGG-triplet repeats form similar intrastrand structures: implications for the triplet expansion diseases
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NGG-triplet repeats form similar intrastrand structures: implications for the triplet expansion diseases.
Tandem repeats of certain trinucleotides show extensive intergenerational instability in humans that is associated with a class of genetic disorders known as the Triplet Expansion Diseases. This instability is thought to be a consequence of the formation of intrastrand structures, including hairpins, triplexes and tetraplexes, by the tandem repeats. I show here that CGG-repeats which are associ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.17.4078