Isolation and characterization of novel CAG repeat containing genes expressed in human brain

Christine Zühlke; Rasmus Kiehl; Antje Johannsmeyer; Karl Heinz Grzeschik; Eberhard Schwinger

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Isolation and characterization of novel CAG repeat containing genes expressed in human brain

Christine Zühlke^*, Rasmus Kiehl, Antje Johannsmeyer, Karl Heinz Grzeschik, Eberhard Schwinger

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Institute of Human Genetics

University of Marburg

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Neurodegenerative diseases may be caused by expansion of triplet repeats in human genes. To identify novel genes with CAG repeats, we screened a human brain cDNA library with an oligonucleotide probe. Four of the isolated cDNAs were sequenced, analyzed for polymorphisms, chromosomal localization, evolutionary conservation and expression. One of the repeats is bi-allelic with 10 triplets (80 % of chromosomes) and 7 triplets (20 % of chromosomes). In one of the genes two CAG repeats coding for 10 and 17 glutamines are localized in the same reading frame.

Original language	English
Journal	Mitochondrial DNA
Volume	10
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1940-1736
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/10425179909033929
Publication status	Published - 1999

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