Study Finds Pathways Governing Instability of GAA/TTC Repeats
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 09:02
in Biology & Nature
A study of more than 6,000 genes in a common species of yeast has identified the pathways that govern the instability of GAA/TTC repeats. In humans, the expansions of these repeats is known to inactivate a gene - FXN - which leads to Friedreich's ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease that is currently incurable.