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Advances in Nucleotide Repeat Expansion Diseases: Transcription Gets in Phase.
Cells - 7 Mar 2023
Figueiredo Ana S, Loureiro Joana R, Macedo-Ribeiro Sandra, Silveira Isabel
Abstract excerpt
Unstable DNA repeat expansions and insertions have been found to cause more than 50 neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and neuromuscular disorders. One of the main hallmarks of repeat expansion diseases is the formation of abnormal RNA or protein aggregates in the neuronal cells of affected individuals. Recent evidence indicates that alterations of the dynamic or material properties of biomolecular...
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