Article
Mouse models of triplet repeat diseases.
Molecular biotechnology - 1 Feb 2006
Bates Gillian P, Gonitel Roman
Abstract excerpt
Triplet repeat expansions were first discovered in 1991 and since then have been found to be the mutation underlying a range of neurodegenerative, neuromuscular, and cognitive disorders including fragile X syndrome, myotonic dystrophy, Friedreich's ataxia, and the polyglutamine disorders that include Huntington's disease. The repeats exert their detrimental effects through different molecular mechanisms dependent...
Topics
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Trinucleotide Repeats
