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The role of the immune system in triplet repeat expansion diseases.
Mediators of inflammation - 1 Jan 2015
Olejniczak Marta, Urbanek Martyna O, Krzyzosiak Wlodzimierz J
Abstract excerpt
Trinucleotide repeat expansion disorders (TREDs) are a group of dominantly inherited neurological diseases caused by the expansion of unstable repeats in specific regions of the associated genes. Expansion of CAG repeat tracts in translated regions of the respective genes results in polyglutamine- (polyQ-) rich proteins that form intracellular aggregates that affect numerous cellular activities. Recent evidence...
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