| Literature DB >> 23989661 |
Agathi-Vasiliki Goula1, Richard Festenstein, Karine Merienne.
Abstract
More than 15 human genetic diseases, including Huntington's disease, result from the expansion of a trinucleotide repeat. The expansions are unstable in specific somatic tissues, which can lead to disease acceleration. Here we discuss the role of transcription elongation in tissue-selective trinucleotide repeat instability.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23989661 PMCID: PMC3977917 DOI: 10.4161/trns.25971
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Transcription ISSN: 2154-1272