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Repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 19 Oct 2018
Cleary John Douglas, Pattamatta Amrutha, Ranum Laura P W
Abstract excerpt
Microsatellite expansions cause more than 40 neurological disorders, including Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, and C9ORF72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia (ALS/FTD). These repeat expansion mutations can produce repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) proteins in all three reading frames, which accumulate in disease-relevant tissues. There has been considerable interest in RAN protein...
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