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Epigenetic changes and non-coding expanded repeats.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Jul 2010
Nakamori Masayuki, Thornton Charles
Abstract excerpt
Many neurogenetic disorders are caused by unstable expansions of tandem repeats. Some of the causal mutations are located in non-protein-coding regions of genes. When pathologically expanded, these repeats can trigger focal epigenetic changes that repress the expression of the mutant allele. When...
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