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MGI Accession ID: MGI:84115
J Number: J:36689
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Title: Exon 1 of the HD gene with an expanded CAG repeat is sufficient to cause a progressive neurological phenotype in transgenic mice.
Authors: Mangiarini L; Sathasivam K; Seller M; Cozens B; Harper A; Hetherington C; Lawton M; Trottier Y; Lehrach H; Davies SW; Bates GP
Journal: Cell
Volume: 87
Issue: 3
Date: 1996 Nov 1
Year: 1996
Pages: 493-506
Review Status: Peer Reviewed
Abstract:
Huntington's disease (HD) is one of an increasing number of neurodegenerative disorders caused by a CAG/ polyglutamine repeat expansion. Mice have been generated that are transgenic for the 5' end of the human HD gene carrying (CAG)(115)-(CAG)(150) repeat expansions. In three lines, the transgene is ubiquitously expressed at both mRNA and protein level. Transgenic mice exhibit a progressive neurological phenotype that exhibits many of the features of HD, including choreiform-like movements, involuntary stereotypic movements, tremor, and epileptic seizures, as well as nonmovement disorder components. This transgenic model will greatly assist in an eventual understanding of the molecular pathology of HD and may open the way to the testing of intervention strategies.
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