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Targeted deletion of a single Sca8 ataxia locus allele in mice causes abnormal gait, progressive loss of motor coordination, and Purkinje cell dendritic deficits.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 27 Sept 2006
He Yungui, Zu Tao, Benzow Kellie A, Orr Harry T, Clark H Brent, Koob Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8) patients typically have a slowly progressive, adult-onset ataxia. SCA8 is dominantly inherited and is caused by large CTG repeat expansions in the untranslated antisense RNA of the Kelch-like 1 gene (KLHL1), but the molecular mechanism through which this expansion leads to disease is still unknown. To more fully characterize the underlying molecular mechanisms involved in...
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