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Trinucleotide repeat expansions catalyzed by human cell-free extracts.
Cell research - 1 Apr 2013
Stevens Jennifer R, Lahue Elaine E, Li Guo-Min, Lahue Robert S
Abstract excerpt
Trinucleotide repeat expansions cause 17 heritable human neurological disorders. In some diseases, somatic expansions occur in non-proliferating tissues such as brain where DNA replication is limited. This finding stimulated significant interest in replication-independent expansion mechanisms. Aberrant DNA repair is a likely source, based in part on mouse studies showing that somatic expansions are provoked by...
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