Toward an understanding of polyglutamine neurodegeneration.

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Polyglutamine expansion is now recognized to be a major cause of inherited human neurodegenerative disease. The polyglutamine expansion diseases identified so far are slowly progressive disorders in which distinct yet overlapping brain regions are selectively vulnerable to degeneration. Despite their clinical differences these diseases likely share a common pathogenic mechanism, occurring at the protein level and...

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