CMBN collaborative study on Huntington's disease published in PLoS Genetics
Scientists from the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience and the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Oslo University Hospital have recently published a paper in the highly rated journal PLoS Genetics (journal impact factor 9.5) on two modes of expansion of CAG repeats in Huntington's disease mice.
The first authorship is shared between Linda Møllersen and Alexander D. Rowe (photo). The other co-authors are Elisabeth Larsen, Torbjørn Rognes and Arne Klungland.
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Continuous and periodic expansion of CAG repeats in Huntington's disease R6/1 mice.
Møllersen L, Rowe AD, Larsen E, Rognes T, Klungland A.
PLoS Genet. 2010 Dec 9;6(12):e1001242.
Torbjørn Rognes' group - CMBN Bioinformatics Group
Arne Klungland's group - Laboratory for Genome repair and regulation
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