Triple repeat diseases of the nervous system
By: edited by Lubov T. Timchenko.
Contributors: Timchenko, Lubov T.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 516
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York; Georgetown, TX : Landes Bioscience
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Nervous system -- Diseases -- Genetic aspects.; Nervous system -- Diseases -- Molecular aspects.; Genetic disorders.; Spinocerebellar Ataxias -- genetics.; Friedreich Ataxia -- genetics.; Myotonic Dystrophy -- genetics.; Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion -- genetics.
Description: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Text provides a comprehensive overview of new data on several disorders associated with unstable mutations. Discusses molecular pathological processes that originate unstable mutations, inherited diseases associated with unstable mutations, and polyglutamine diseases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.