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Histone deacetylase complexes promote trinucleotide repeat expansions.
PLoS biology - 1 Feb 2012
Debacker Kim, Frizzell Aisling, Gleeson Olive, Kirkham-McCarthy Lucy, Mertz Tony, Lahue Robert S
Abstract excerpt
Expansions of DNA trinucleotide repeats cause at least 17 inherited neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease. Expansions can occur at frequencies approaching 100% in affected families and in transgenic mice, suggesting that specific cellular proteins actively promote (favor) expansions. The inference is that expansions arise due to the presence of these promoting proteins, not their absence, and...
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