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Therapeutic approaches to spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
Trends in pharmacological sciences - 1 Nov 2010
Ranganathan Srikanth, Fischbeck Kenneth H
Abstract excerpt
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy is a hereditary motor neuron disease caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion in the androgen receptor gene. The disease mechanism probably involves a toxic gain of function in the mutant protein, because other mutations that cause a loss of androgen receptor fu...
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