Design of RNAi hairpins for mutation-specific silencing of ataxin-7 and correction of a SCA7 phenotype.

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 is a polyglutamine disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat mutation that results in neurodegeneration. Since no treatment exists for this chronic disease, novel therapies such post-transcriptional RNA interference-based gene silencing are under investigation, in parti...

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Main Authors: Janine Scholefield, L Jacquie Greenberg, Marc S Weinberg, Patrick B Arbuthnot, Amr Abdelgany, Matthew J A Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2747278?pdf=render