Tandem repeat polymorphisms
Subtitle: genetic plasticity, neural diversity, and disease
By: edited by Anthony J. Hannan
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 769; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 769.
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781461454335
Subjects: Tandem Repeat Sequences; Genetics; Nervous System Heredodegenerative Disorders; Genetic Polymorphism; Mutation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tandem repeat polymorphisms : mediators of genetic plasticity, modulators of biological diversity and dynamic sources of disease susceptibility / Anthony J. Hannan; title: Evolution of simple sequence repeats as mutable sites / David G. King; title: Single amino acid and trinucleotide repeats : function and evolution / Noel Faux; title: Promoter microsatellites as modulators of human gene expression / Sterling M. Sawaya ... [et al.]; title: Dynamic mutations : where are they now? / Clare L. Van Eyk and Robert I. Richards; title: Unstable mutations in the FMR1 gene and the phenotypes / Danuta Loesch and Randi Hagerman; title: Molecular pathways to polyglutamine aggregation / Amy L. Robertson and Stephen P. Bottomley; title: Polyglutamine aggregation in Huntington and related diseases / Saskia Polling, Andrew F. Hill and Danny M. Hatters; title: Selective neurodegeneration, neuropathology and symptom profiles in Huntington's disease / Henry J. Waldvogel ... [et al.]; title: Kennedy's disease : clinical significance of tandem repeats in the androgen receptor / Jeffrey D. Zajac and Mark Ng Tang Fui; title: Characterising the neuropathology and neurobehavioural phenotype in Friedreich ataxia : a systematic review / Louise A. Corben ... [et al.]; title: Polyalanine tract disorders and neurocognitive phenotypes / Cheryl Shoubridge and Jozef Gecz.