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Fen-Biao Gao1, Joel D Richter2.
Abstract
Sellier et al. (2017) show that translation of expanded CGG repeats in fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome is initiated at an upstream ACG near-cognate start codon. The resulting polyglycine-containing protein, but not repeat RNA, is pathogenic by disrupting the nuclear lamina.Entities:
Keywords: ALS; C9ORF72; FMR1; FXTAS; RAN translation; frontotemporal dementia; microsatellite; neurodegeneration; nuclear lamina; repeats
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28103472 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuron ISSN: 0896-6273 Impact factor: 18.688