In genetics, trinucleotide repeat disorders, a subset of microsatellite expansion diseases (also known as repeat expansion disorders), are a set of over...
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A trinucleotide repeat expansion, also known as a triplet repeat expansion, is the DNA mutation responsible for causing any type of disorder categorized...
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Anticipation (genetics) (category Genetic disorders by mechanism)
severity of symptoms is also noted. Anticipation is common in trinucleotide repeat disorders, such as Huntington's disease and myotonic dystrophy, where...
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the most commonly observed manifestations of this process. Trinucleotide repeat disorders also follow a non-Mendelian pattern of inheritance. These diseases...
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Huntington's disease (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
influenced by the sex of the affected parent. HD is one of several trinucleotide repeat disorders that are caused by the length of a repeated section of a gene...
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called a trinucleotide repeat (for example: CAGCAGCAGCAG...), and abnormalities in such regions can give rise to trinucleotide repeat disorders. When between...
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Microsatellite (redirect from Short tandem repeat)
disorder in humans. Length changes in other triplet repeats are linked to more than 40 neurological diseases in humans, notably trinucleotide repeat disorders...
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Dentatorubral–pallidoluysian atrophy (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
caused by expanded CAG repeats encoding polyglutamine (polyQ) stretches (see: Trinucleotide repeat disorder). The expanded CAG repeats create an adverse gain-of-function...
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Fragile X syndrome (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
This disorder and finding of fragile X syndrome has an X-linked dominant inheritance. It is typically caused by an expansion of the CGG triplet repeat within...
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Myotonic dystrophy (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
(CTG) triplet repeats, termed trinucleotide repeat expansion and classifying DM1 as one of several trinucleotide repeat disorders. This expansion occurs...
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Friedreich's ataxia (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
frataxin. In 96% of cases, the mutant FXN gene has 90–1,300 GAA trinucleotide repeat expansions in intron 1 of both alleles. This expansion causes epigenetic...
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disease in the person with the excess number of repeats. Fragile X syndrome, a trinucleotide repeat disorder, is a condition in which premutations may be...
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chromosome extra, missing, or both (see chromosome abnormality) T – Trinucleotide repeat disorders: gene is extended in length "OMIM Entry - # 118220 - CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH...
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as other repeat disorders. This hexanucleotide variant of a trinucleotide repeat disorder produces five different dipeptides by RAN translation, these...
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Neurodegenerative disease (redirect from Neurodegenerative disorder)
Diseases associated with such mutations are known as trinucleotide repeat disorders. Polyglutamine repeats typically cause dominant pathogenesis. Extra glutamine...
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Repeated sequence (DNA) (redirect from Dna repeat)
diseases. Specifically, tandem repeat sequences, underlie several human disease conditions, particularly trinucleotide repeat diseases such as Huntington's...
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with the increase in glutamine concentration. Isoglutamine Trinucleotide repeat disorder PolyQ tract "FDA approves new treatment for sickle cell disease"...
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Huntington's disease-like syndrome (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
disorder linked to chromosome 4p15.3. It has only been reported in two families, and the causative gene is unidentified. Other neurogenetic disorders...
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than that of trinucleotide repeat disorders, since D4Z4 repeats are much larger than trinucleotide repeats, an underabundance of repeats (rather than...
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during the DNA synthesis step of DNA repair processes. Within DNA trinucleotide repeat sequences, the repair of DNA damage by the processes of homologous...
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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
two disorders. SCA6 is caused by mutations in CACNA1A, a gene encoding a calcium channel α subunit. These mutations tend to be trinucleotide repeats of...
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class of autosomal and X-linked dominant diseases known as trinucleotide repeat disorders (for example, Huntington's disease), a molecular mechanism for...
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Hyperkinesia (category Neurological disorders)
be associated with post-stroke hyperkinesia. DRPLA is a rare trinucleotide repeat disorder (polyglutamine disease) that can be juvenile-onset (< 20 years)...
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part of a class of neurodegenerative disorders known as trinucleotide repeat disorders or polyglutamine disorders. The key sequence which is found in Huntington's...
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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (category Trinucleotide repeat disorders)
can occur in some cases. It is caused by an expanded number of trinucleotide repeats in the polyglutamine tract of the ATXN1 gene, which encodes the...
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times, give rise to numerous known diseases, including the trinucleotide repeat disorders. Robert I. Richards and Grant R. Sutherland called these phenomena...
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biological database of polyglutamine repeats in disease and non-disease associated proteins. Trinucleotide repeat disorder Robertson, Amy L; Bate Mark A; Androulakis...
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Sierra Leone CGG, a codon for the amino acid arginine CGG repeats, a trinucleotide repeat disorder; causing: Fragile X syndrome Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia...
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Proteinopathy (category Neurological disorders)
0b013e328356d328. PMID 22918486. Orr HT, Zoghbi HY (July 2007). "Trinucleotide repeat disorders". Annual Review of Neuroscience. 30 (1): 575–621. doi:10.1146/annurev...
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SMRT sequencing. This is an example of a Trinucleotide repeat disorder. Trinucleotide repeat expansion is likely a consequence of strand slippage either...
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