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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-16
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Two forms of the neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia are known to be caused by the expansion of a CAG (polyglutamine) trinucleotide repeat. By screening cDNA expression libraries, using an antibody specific for polyglutamine repeats, we identified six novel genes containing CAG stretches. One of them is mutated in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia linked to chromosome 12q (SCA2). This gene shows ubiquitous expression and encodes a protein of unknown function. Normal SCA2 alleles (17 to 29 CAG repeats) contain one to three CAAs in the repeat. Mutated alleles (37 to 50 repeats) appear particularly unstable, upon both paternal and maternal transmissions. The sequence of three of them revealed pure CAG stretches. The steep inverse correlation between age of onset and CAG number suggests a higher sensitivity to polyglutamine length than in the other polyglutamine expansion diseases.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
285-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Age of Onset, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Child, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Spinocerebellar Degenerations, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-TATA-Box Binding Protein, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:8896557-Trinucleotide Repeats
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning of the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia 2 reveals a locus with high sensitivity to expanded CAG/glutamine repeats.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), CNRS, INSERM, ULP, B.P., Illkirch, Strasbourg, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't