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Structure and Dynamics of RNA Repeat Expansions That Cause Huntington's Disease and Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1.
Biochemistry - 11 Jul 2017
Chen Jonathan L, VanEtten Damian M, Fountain Matthew A, Yildirim Ilyas, Disney Matthew D
Abstract excerpt
RNA repeat expansions cause a host of incurable, genetically defined diseases. The most common class of RNA repeats consists of trinucleotide repeats. These long, repeating transcripts fold into hairpins containing 1 × 1 internal loops that can mediate disease via a variety of mechanism(s) in which RNA is the central player. Two of these disorders are Huntington's disease and myotonic dystrophy type 1, which are...
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