Article
Molecular Mechanisms in Pentanucleotide Repeat Diseases.
Cells - 8 Jan 2022
Loureiro Joana R, Castro Ana F, Figueiredo Ana S, Silveira Isabel
Abstract excerpt
The number of neurodegenerative diseases resulting from repeat expansion has increased extraordinarily in recent years. In several of these pathologies, the repeat can be transcribed in RNA from both DNA strands producing, at least, one toxic RNA repeat that causes neurodegeneration by a complex mechanism. Recently, seven diseases have been found caused by a novel intronic pentanucleotide repeat in distinct genes...
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