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Clinical features, neurogenetics and neuropathology of the polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias type 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7.

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The present review summarizes the current knowledge about the polyglutamine ataxias SCA1,SCA2, SCA3, SCa6 and SCA7 and compares their clinical and electrophysiological features, genetic and molecular biological background, as well as their brain pathologies.
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This article is published in Progress in Neurobiology.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Spinocerebellar ataxia.

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Tandem repeats mediating genetic plasticity in health and disease.

TL;DR: A better understanding of tandem repeats and their associated repeatome, as well as their capacity for genetic plasticity via both germline and somatic mutations, is needed to transform the understanding of the role of TRPs in health and disease.
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Polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias — from genes to potential treatments

TL;DR: The dominantly inherited spinocerebellar ataxias represent a substantial portion of the polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders and provide insight into this class of diseases as a whole.
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Polyglutamine (PolyQ) diseases: genetics to treatments.

TL;DR: Cellular transplantation of stem cells may provide promising therapeutic avenues for restoration of the functions of degenerative and/or damaged neurons in polyQ diseases.
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Huntington's disease (HD): the neuropathology of a multisystem neurodegenerative disorder of the human brain.

TL;DR: An overview of the currently known neurodegenerative hallmarks of the brains of HD patients is given and the stepwise revision of the simplified pathoanatomical and pathophysiological HD concept is revisioned.
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Oligonucleotide therapy mitigates disease in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 mice.

TL;DR: This work investigates whether an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) targeting the SCA3 disease gene, ATXN3, can prevent molecular, neuropathological, electrophysiological, and behavioral features of the disease in a mouse model ofSCA3.
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Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease

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A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used haplotype analysis of linkage disequilibrium to spotlight a small segment of 4p16.3 as the likely location of the defect, which is expanded and unstable on HD chromosomes.
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