Promoter-Bound Trinucleotide Repeat mRNA Drives Epigenetic Silencing in Fragile X Syndrome
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Fragile X and other trinucleotide repeat diseases.
Hereditary unstable DNA is composed of strings of trinucleotide repeats, in which three nucleotides are repeated over and over (ie CAGCAGCAGCAG). These repeats are found in several sites within genes; depending on their location, the number of triplet repeats in a string can change as it is passed on to offspring. When the number of repeats increases to a critical size, it can have a variety of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1245831