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New alternative splicing variants of the ATXN2 transcript
2 Jul 2019
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BACKGROUND: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is an autosomal dominant disorder with progressive degeneration of cerebellar Purkinje cells and selective loss of neurons in the brainstem. This neurodegenerative disorder is caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine domain in ataxin-2. Ataxin-2 is composed of 1312 amino acids, has a predicted molecular weight of 150-kDa and is widely expressed in neuronal and...
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