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Inherited Neurodegenerative Disorders Caused by CAG/Polyglutamine Tract Expansions: Symposium Introduction
Authors:Albert R. La Spada MD  PhD  Arthur W. Clark MD
Affiliation:Division of Medical Genetics, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA;Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Pathology and Clinical Neurosciences and the Neuroscience Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Abstract:At the beginning of this decade, the American Association of Neurology decided that the 1990's should be labelled "the decade of the brain" for expected advances in our understanding of neurological disorders and neuroscience. By the end of this decade, clinicians and researchers who work in the field of inherited neurological disorders might well remember the 1990's as "the decade of the trinucleotide repeat". At the time of writing this introduction, eleven inherited neurological disorders have been found to be caused by expansions of trinucleotide repeats, and a twelfth trinucleotide repeat expansion mutation has been identified (6), although the gene containing this mutant triplet repeat has not been cloned to our knowledge (Table 1).
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