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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 506-512Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.08.004
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Fragile X mental retardation and Friedreich's ataxia were among the first pathogenic trinucleotide repeat disorders to be described in which noncoding repeat expansions interfere with gene expression and cause a loss of protein production. Invoking a similar loss-of-function hypothesis for the CTG expansion causing myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) located in the 3' noncoding portion of a kinase gene was more difficult because DM is a dominantly inherited multisystemic disorder in which the second copy of the gene is unaffected. However, the discovery that a transcribed but untranslated CCTG expansion causes myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2), along with other discoveries on DM1 and DM2 pathogenesis, indicate that the CTG and CCTG expansions are pathogenic at the RNA level. This review will detail recent developments on the molecular mechanisms of RNA pathogenesis in DIM, and the growing number of expansion disorders that might involve similar pathogenic RNA mechanisms.
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