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Repeat associated non-ATG (RAN) translation: new starts in microsatellite expansion disorders.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2014
Cleary John Douglas, Ranum Laura P W
Abstract excerpt
Microsatellite-expansion diseases are a class of neurological and neuromuscular disorders caused by the expansion of short stretches of repetitive DNA (e.g. GGGGCC, CAG, CTG …) within the human genome. Since their discovery 20 years ago, research into how microsatellites expansions cause disease has been examined using the model that these genes are expressed in one direction and that expansion mutations only...
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