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The shared ancestry between the C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion and intermediate-length alleles using haplotype sharing trees and HAPTK.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2024
Rautila Osma S, Kaivola Karri, Rautila Harri, Hokkanen Laura, Launes Jyrki, Strandberg Timo E, Laaksovirta Hannu, Palmio Johanna, Tienari Pentti J
Abstract excerpt
The C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion (HRE) is a common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The inheritance is autosomal dominant, but a high proportion of subjects with the mutation are simplex cases. One possible explanation is de novo expansions of unstable intermediate-length alleles (IAs). Using haplotype sharing trees (HSTs) with the haplotype...
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