Mitotic and meiotic instability of the CAG trinucleotide repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

doi:10.1007/s004390050870

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Mitotic and meiotic instability of the CAG trinucleotide repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

Human genetics - 1 Nov 1998

Koefoed P, Hasholt L, Fenger K, Nielsen J E, Eiberg H, Buschard K, Sørensen S A

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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by an unstable CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the ataxin-1 gene located on chromosome 6p22-p23. The expanded CAG repeat is unstable during transmission, and a variation in the CAG re...

Topics

Alleles
Gene Dosage
Haplotypes
Humans
Leukocytes
Male
Meiosis
Mitosis
Pedigree
Spermatozoa
Spinocerebellar Degenerations
Trinucleotide Repeats

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