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Elucidation of ataxin-3 and ataxin-7 function by integrative bioinformatics.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Nov 2003
Scheel Hartmut, Tomiuk Stefan, Hofmann Kay
Abstract excerpt
The spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a class of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, which are caused by the pathological expansion of unstable CAG triplet repeats found in a number of apparently unrelated genes. The proteins encoded by the SCA genes typically translate this expanded (CAG)n repeat into an expanded poly(Q) stretch. Several pathological features are common to all SCAs, irrespective of the gene...
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