SCA8 CAG/CTG expansions, a tale of two TOXICities: A unique or common case?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Merienne, Karine ^a   Trottier, Yvon ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALANINE; ATAXIN 1; ATAXIN 3; ATAXIN 7; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PROTEIN KINASE; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 8 PROTEIN; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; RNA; SCA8 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CODON; DROSOPHILA; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 70149115083     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000593     Document Type: Review

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