[Diseases caused by triplet expansion.]

Rev Neurol. 2009 Jul 16-31;49(2):79-87

[Article in Spanish]
Rosales-Reynoso MA, Ochoa-Hernandez AB, Barros-Nunez P.
Centro de Investigacion Biomedica de Occidente IMSS (CIBO), Guadalajara, Mexico

Keywords: expansion of nucleotide triplets, meiosis, mitosis, CGG/ GCC, CAG/GTC, CTG/GAC, GAA/CTT, bulbospinal muscular atrophy, Huntington's diseas, spinocerebellar ataxias, fragile X syndrome, Friedreich's ataxia, myotonic dystrophy, cis-acting, trans-acting, pre-mutations, dynamic mutation processes.