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SMRT Sequencing of Long Tandem Nucleotide Repeats in SCA10 Reveals Unique Insight of Repeat Expansion Structure.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
McFarland Karen N, Liu Jilin, Landrian Ivette, Godiska Ronald, Shanker Savita, Yu Fahong, Farmerie William G, Ashizawa Tetsuo
Abstract excerpt
A large, non-coding ATTCT repeat expansion causes the neurodegenerative disorder, spinocerebellar ataxia type 10 (SCA10). In a subset of SCA10 patients, interruption motifs are present at the 5' end of the expansion and strongly correlate with epileptic seizures. Thus, interruption motifs are a predictor of the epileptic phenotype and are hypothesized to act as a phenotypic modifier in SCA10. Yet, the exact...
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