Evolution of a Human-Specific Tandem Repeat Associated with ALS

Tandem repeats are proposed to contribute to human-specific traits, and more than 40 tandem repeat expansions are known to cause neurological disease. Here, we characterize a human-specific 69 bp variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in the last intron of WDR7, which exhibits striking variability in...

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Publié dans:Am J Hum Genet
Auteurs principaux: Course, Meredith M., Gudsnuk, Kathryn, Smukowski, Samuel N., Winston, Kosuke, Desai, Nitin, Ross, Jay P., Sulovari, Arvis, Bourassa, Cynthia V., Spiegelman, Dan, Couthouis, Julien, Yu, Chang-En, Tsuang, Debby W., Jayadev, Suman, Kay, Mark A., Gitler, Aaron D., Dupre, Nicolas, Eichler, Evan E., Dion, Patrick A., Rouleau, Guy A., Valdmanis, Paul N.
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Elsevier 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7477013/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32750315
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.07.004
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