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Allele-selective suppression of mutant genes in polyglutamine diseases.
Journal of neurogenetics - 1 Jan 2015
Liu Chia-Rung, Cheng Tzu-Hao
Abstract excerpt
Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are heritable dominant neurological disorders, caused by abnormal CAG tri-nucleotide expansion in the coding sequence of affected genes. Extension of CAG repeats results in the production of aberrant gene products that are deleterious to neurons, such as transcripts with a CAG stem-loop secondary structure, and proteins containing a long stretch of polyQ residues. Thus, determining...
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