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Ekaterina V Mirkin1, Sergei M Mirkin2.
Abstract
Expansions of DNA repeats cause hereditary disorders in humans. Gerhardt et al. (2014) argue that a developmental switch in the direction of DNA replication through the (CGG)n repeat predisposes it to expansions during intergenerational transmissions leading to fragile X syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24411078 PMCID: PMC3940269 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.12.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell ISSN: 1097-2765 Impact factor: 17.970