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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Main Authors: Chun⁃rong WANG, Hong JIANG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tianjin Huanhu Hospital 2012-06-01
Series:Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.cjcnn.org/index.php/cjcnn/article/view/351