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Using non-coding small RNAs to develop therapies for Huntington's disease.
Gene therapy - 1 Dec 2011
Zhang Y, Friedlander R M
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of CAG triplets at the 5' end of the HD gene, which encodes a pathologically elongated polyglutamine stretch near the N-terminus of huntingtin. HD is an incurable autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease characterized by movement disorder, as well as emotional distress and dementia. The newly discovered roles of the non-coding small RNAs in specific...
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