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Tissue-specific and repeat length-dependent somatic instability of the X-linked dystonia parkinsonism-associated CCCTCT repeat

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Published in 2022 at "Acta Neuropathologica Communications"

DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.27.478096

Abstract: X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) is a progressive adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder caused by insertion of a SINE-VNTR-Alu (SVA) retrotransposon in the TAF1 gene. The SVA retrotransposon contains a CCCTCT hexameric repeat tract of variable length, whose length… read more here.

Keywords: ccctct repeat; repeat length; instability; repeat ... See more keywords