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An SNP in the trinucleotide repeat region of the TNRC6A gene maps to a major TNGW1 autoepitope in patients with autoantibodies to GW182.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2013
Moser Joanna J, Chan Edward K L, Fritzler Marvin J
Abstract excerpt
GW/P bodies contain two TNRC6A protein isoforms (GW182 and TNGW1) that function as translational repressors of mRNA through Ago2-mediated RNA silencing. Autoantibodies to GW/P body components GW182, Ge-1 and Ago2 have previously been correlated with clinical autoimmune diseases including neurological disease, Sjögren's syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and primary biliary cirrhosis. No...
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