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Loss of the dystonia-associated protein torsinA selectively disrupts the neuronal nuclear envelope.
Neuron - 22 Dec 2005
Goodchild Rose E, Kim Connie Eunji, Dauer William T
Abstract excerpt
An enigmatic feature of many genetic diseases is that mutations in widely expressed genes cause tissue-specific illness. One example is DYT1 dystonia, a neurodevelopmental disease caused by an in-frame deletion (Deltagag) in the gene encoding torsinA. Here we show that neurons from both torsinA null (Tor1a(-/-)) and homozygous disease mutant "knockin" mice (Tor1a(Deltagag/Deltagag)) contain severely abnormal...
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