DNA Dynamics Is Likely to Be a Factor in the Genomic Nucleotide Repeats Expansions Related to Diseases

Boian S. Alexandrov; Vlad I. Valtchinov; Ludmil B. Alexandrov; Vladimir Gelev; Yossi Dagon; Jonathan Bock; Isaac S. Kohane; Kim Ø. Rasmussen; Alan R. Bishop; Anny Usheva

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019800

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DNA Dynamics Is Likely to Be a Factor in the Genomic Nucleotide Repeats Expansions Related to Diseases

Boian S. Alexandrov ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Boian S. Alexandrov, Vlad I. Valtchinov

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
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Vlad I. Valtchinov ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Boian S. Alexandrov, Vlad I. Valtchinov

Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Computing, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Ludmil B. Alexandrov,

Current address: Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Vladimir Gelev,

Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Yossi Dagon,

Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jonathan Bock,

Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Isaac S. Kohane,

Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Computing, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Kim Ø. Rasmussen,

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
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Alan R. Bishop,

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America
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Anny Usheva

* E-mail: ausheva@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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DNA Dynamics Is Likely to Be a Factor in the Genomic Nucleotide Repeats Expansions Related to Diseases

Boian S. Alexandrov,
Vlad I. Valtchinov,
Ludmil B. Alexandrov,
Vladimir Gelev,
Yossi Dagon,
Jonathan Bock,
Isaac S. Kohane,
Kim Ø. Rasmussen,
Alan R. Bishop,
Anny Usheva

Published: May 20, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019800

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