An untranslated CTG expansion causes a novel form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA8)
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 21 (4), 379-384
- https://doi.org/10.1038/7710
Abstract
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the only disease reported to be caused by a CTG expansion. We now report that a non-coding CTG expansion causes a novel form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA8). This expansion, located on chromosome 13q21, was isolated directly from the genomic DNA of an ataxia patient by RAPID cloning. SCA8 patients have expansions similar in size (107-127 CTG repeats) to those found among adult-onset DM patients. SCA8 is the first example of a dominant SCA not caused by a CAG expansion translated as a polyglutamine tract.Keywords
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