Trinucleotide repeat diseases Flashcards by Erin Polley | Brainscape

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Excessive amplification of a base triplets

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Fragile X – FMR 1

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Fragile X: FMR-1 (fragile-x mental retardation protein)
Huntington’s disease:

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Trinucleotide repeat diseases

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Caused by the length of a repeated section (CAG, codes for Gln) of a gene exceeding a normal range

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Huntingtons

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> 40 trinucleotide repeats-

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Huntingtons

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