Progress study on the mechanism of CAG repeats dynamic mutation in polyQ disease
Polyglutamine (polyQ) disease is a group of neurodegenerative disorders caused by abnormal expansion of CAG repeats within coding regions of certain causative genes, which are translated into a series of abnormally expanded polyQ tracts causing cytotoxicity. So far, nine diseases caused by expanded...
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Language: | English |
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Tianjin Huanhu Hospital
2012-06-01
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Series: | Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery |
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Online Access: | http://www.cjcnn.org/index.php/cjcnn/article/view/351 |