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Bovine proteins containing poly-glutamine repeats are often polymorphic and enriched for components of transcriptional regulatory complexes.
BMC genomics - 23 Nov 2010
Whan Vicki, Hobbs Matthew, McWilliam Sean, Lynn David J, Lutzow Ylva Strandberg, Khatkar Mehar, Barendse William, Raadsma Herman, Tellam Ross L
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BACKGROUND: About forty human diseases are caused by repeat instability mutations. A distinct subset of these diseases is the result of extreme expansions of polymorphic trinucleotide repeats; typically CAG repeats encoding poly-glutamine (poly-Q) tracts in proteins. Polymorphic repeat length variation is also apparent in human poly-Q encoding genes from normal individuals. As these coding sequence repeats are...
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