VOPROSY MEDITSINSKOI KHIMII (ISSN 0042-8809)

Search of CAG repeat expansion in DNA sequences expressed in the brain in physical and neurological disorders

   
Ovchinnikov I.V., Braga E.A., Aksenova M.G., Druzina E.B., Ovchinnikova O.I., Illarioshkin S.N., Kaleda V.G., Markova E.D., Ivanova-Smolenskaya I.A.
PubMed Id: 9254522
Year: 1996  Volume: 42  Issue: 4  Pages: 333-336
Dynamic mutations due to trinucleotide repeat expansion are a new class of human genome mutations. CAG repeat expansion in the coding region of associated genes is the molecular genetic basis of the several diseases of nervous system. Eight DNA sequences with CAG repeats expressed in human brain were chosen from the GenBank database. The search of CAG expansion was carried out for patients with schizophrenia (brain and blood) and essential tremor. CAG repeat expansion has not been found for the loci. The distribution of allelic sizes is similar in the patients and control samples. Locus HS0073 has shown the polymorphism of the length for CAG repeat alleles. Statistically reliable excess of the homozygotes has been found for schizophrenic patients.
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Keywords: CAG repeat expansion, schizophrenia, essential tremor
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Ovchinnikov, I. V., Braga, E. A., Aksenova, M. G., Druzina, E. B., Ovchinnikova, O. I., Illarioshkin, S. N., Kaleda, V. G., Markova, E. D., Ivanova-Smolenskaya, I. A. (1996). Search of CAG repeat expansion in DNA sequences expressed in the brain in physical and neurological disorders. Voprosy Meditsinskoi Khimii, 42(4), 333-336.
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