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Repeat-Associated Non-ATG Translation in Neurological Diseases.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology - 3 Dec 2018
Zu Tao, Pattamatta Amrutha, Ranum Laura P W
Abstract excerpt
More than 40 different neurological diseases are caused by microsatellite repeat expansions that locate within translated or untranslated gene regions, including 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTRs), introns, and protein-coding regions. Expansion mutations are transcribed bidirectionally and have been shown to give rise to proteins, which are synthesized from three reading frames in the absence of an AUG...
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