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Antisense oligonucleotides: rising stars in eliminating RNA toxicity in myotonic dystrophy.
Human gene therapy - 1 May 2013
Gao Zhihua, Cooper Thomas A
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is a dominantly inherited, multisystemic disease caused by expanded CTG (type 1, DM1) or CCTG (type 2, DM2) repeats in untranslated regions of the mutated genes. Pathogenesis results from expression of RNAs from the mutated alleles that are toxic because of the expanded CUG or CCUG repeats. Increased understanding of the repeat-containing RNA (C/CUG(exp) RNA)-induced toxicity has led to...
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