Of yeast and men: Unravelling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia
Friday, July 10, 2009 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as Friedreich's ataxia. There is no cure for this condition, which damages the nervous system and can result in heart disease...