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Somatic instability of the androgen receptor CAG repeat in a normal female.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Mar 2003
Sharp Andrew, Hurst Jane
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The polyglutamine repeat disorders represent a family of degenerative neurological diseases which are characterized by expansions of tandemly repeated CAG repeats. Investigations have demonstrated that in Huntington disease, dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy, and the spinocerebellar ataxias type 1, 2, and 3, the polyglutamine expansions show both meiotic and mitotic instability. However, previous studies have...
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