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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2010

Repeat expansion disease: progress and puzzles in disease pathogenesis.

Albert R La Spada, J Paul Taylor

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 262 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

262 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Mechanism of MutLβ-dependent DNA expansions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Driving forces of RNA condensation revealed through coarse-grained modeling with explicit MgProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  17. Biomolecular Condensates Can Enhance Homotypic RNA Clustering.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  19. Proteostasis as a Sentry for Sperm Quality and Male Fertility.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Albert R La SpadaDivision of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. alaspada@ucsd.edu
J Paul Taylor

Funding

SCA7 RETINAL DEGENERATION: MOLECULAR BASIS &THERAPYR01EY014061 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ALBERT R LA SPADA · 2002 to 2026
$8.4M
MODELS OF SBMA MOTOR NEURON DEGENERATIONR01NS041648 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LA SPADA, ALBERT R · 2001 to 2014
$4.5M
The PPAR-delta pathway in neural function and Huntington's disease neuropathologyR01NS065874 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI LA SPADA, ALBERT R · 2010 to 2020
$4.0M
Pathways of Neurodegeneration in SBMAR01NS053825 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TAYLOR, JOSEPH PAUL · 2006 to 2015
$3.5M
MOLECULAR BASIS OF TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT INSTABILITYR01GM059356 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LA SPADA, ALBERT R · 1999 to 2010
$3.0M
HDAC6 and the intersection between the UPS, autophagy, and neurodegenerationR01AG031587 · NIA · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI TAYLOR, JOSEPH PAUL · 2008 to 2012
$1.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014061NIA NIH HHS R01 AG031587NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059356NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS041648NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS053825NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS065874
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Repeat expansion mutations cause at least 22 inherited neurological diseases. The complexity of repeat disease genetics and pathobiology has revealed unexpected shared themes and mechanistic pathways among the diseases, such as RNA toxicity. Also, investigation of the polyglutamine diseases has identified post-translational modification as a key step in the pathogenic cascade and has shown that the autophagy pathway has an important role in the degradation of misfolded proteins--two themes that are likely to be relevant to the entire neurodegeneration field. Insights from repeat disease research are catalysing new lines of study that should not only elucidate molecular mechanisms of disease but also highlight opportunities for therapeutic intervention for these currently untreatable disorders.

Indexed as

DNA Repeat ExpansionAnimalsAtaxiaAtaxin-1AtaxinsAutophagyFragile X SyndromeHumansHuntingtin ProteinMiceMyotonic DystrophyNerve Tissue ProteinsNervous System DiseasesNuclear ProteinsPeptidesProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalAtaxin-1AtaxinsATXN1 protein, humanAtxn1 protein, mouseHTT protein, humanHuntingtin ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPeptidespolyglutamineRNA

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