Expression characteristics of triplet repeat-containing RNAs and triplet repeat-interacting proteins in human tissues.

Numerous human transcripts contain tandem repeats of trinucleotide motifs, the function of which remains unknown. In this study we used the available gene expression EST data to characterize the abundance of a large group of these transcripts in different tissues and determine the mRNAs which had the highest contribution to the observed levels of transcripts containing different types of the CN...

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Regular paper Expression characteristics of triplet repeat-containing RNAs and triplet repeat-interacting proteins in human tissues

Numerous human transcripts contain tandem repeats of trinucleotide motifs, the function of which remains unknown. In this study we used the available gene expression EST data to characterize the abundance of a large group of these transcripts in different tissues and determine the mRNAs which had the highest contribution to the observed levels of transcripts containing different types of the CN...

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Triplet Repeat Diseases

3 Type 1: The CAG/Polyglutamine Repeat Diseases 9 3.1 Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy 9 3.2 Huntington’s Disease 12 3.3 Dentatorubral Pallidoluysian Atrophy 15 3.4 Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 16 3.5 Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 18 3.6 Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3/Machado–Joseph Disease 19 3.7 Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 21 3.8 Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 7 22 3.9 Spinocerebellar Ataxia...

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Triplet repeat length bias and variation in the human transcriptome.

Length variation in short tandem repeats (STRs) is an important family of DNA polymorphisms with numerous applications in genetics, medicine, forensics, and evolutionary analysis. Several major diseases have been associated with length variation of trinucleotide (triplet) repeats including Huntington's disease, hereditary ataxias and spinobulbar muscular atrophy. Using the reference human genom...

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Epigenetics and Triplet-Repeat Neurological Diseases

The term "junk DNA" has been reconsidered following the delineation of the functional significance of repetitive DNA regions. Typically associated with centromeres and telomeres, DNA repeats are found in nearly all organisms throughout their genomes. Repetitive regions are frequently heterochromatinized resulting in silencing of intrinsic and nearby genes. However, this is not a uniform rule, w...

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Expression characteristics of triplet repeat-containing RNAs and triplet repeat-interacting proteins in human tissues.

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