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SUBMITTER: Fiszer A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5192508 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fiszer Agnieszka A Wroblewska Joanna P JP Nowak Bartosz M BM Krzyzosiak Wlodzimierz J WJ
Genes 20161217 12
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is a human neurodegenerative polyglutamine (polyQ) disease caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the open reading frame of the <i>ATXN7</i> gene. The allele-selective silencing of mutant transcripts using a repeat-targeting strategy has previously been used for several polyQ diseases. Herein, we demonstrate that the selective targeting of a repeat tract in a mutant <i>ATXN7</i> transcript by RNA interference is a feasible approach and results in an efficient de ...[more]