Epigenetics in nucleotide repeat expansion disorders.

Over the past 20 years, nucleotide repeat expansion disorders have informed our broader understanding of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease. This is especially true with regard to the contributions of epigenetic mechanisms to neurologic disease pathogenesis. In this review, the authors describe a few of the myriad ways in which epigenetic processes underlie aspects of repeat expansion disorder pathophysiology and discuss how therapies targeted at epigenetic modulation hold promise for many of these disorders. © Thieme Medical Publishers.