| Literature DB >> 29043640 |
Elina A Radchenko1, Ryan J McGinty1, Anna Y Aksenova2, Alexander J Neil1, Sergei M Mirkin3.
Abstract
Instability of repetitive DNA sequences causes numerous hereditary disorders in humans, the majority of which are associated with trinucleotide repeat expansions. Here, we describe a unique system to study instability of triplet repeats in a yeast experimental setting. Using fluctuation assay and the novel program FluCalc we are able to accurately estimate the rates of large-scale expansions, as well as repeat-mediated mutagenesis and gross chromosomal rearrangements for different repeat sequences.Entities:
Keywords: Expansion rate; FluCalc; Fluctuation assay; MSS-MLE; Mutation rate; Repeat expansions; Repeat-induced mutagenesis; Trinucleotide repeats
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29043640 PMCID: PMC5741187 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7306-4_29
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745