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[Diseases caused by triplet expansion].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Rosales-Reynoso M A, Ochoa-Hernández A B, Barros-Núñez P
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Today we know of a group of mutations caused by the expansion of nucleotide triplets, which are very unstable in meiosis and mitosis. Four types of triplets have the capacity for pathogenic expansion in human beings (CGG/ GCC, CAG/GTC, CTG/GAC and GAA/CTT) and maybe located both in coding sequences (bulbospinal muscular atrophy, Huntington's disease and certain spinocerebellar ataxias) and...
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