Search Results - "Bidichandani, Sanjay I."
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Friedreich ataxia- pathogenesis and implications for therapies
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-12-2019)“…Friedreich ataxia is the most common of the hereditary ataxias. It is due to homozygous/compound heterozygous mutations in FXN. This gene encodes frataxin, a…”
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DNA methylation in Friedreich ataxia silences expression of frataxin isoform E
Published in Scientific reports (23-03-2022)“…Epigenetic silencing in Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), induced by an expanded GAA triplet-repeat in intron 1 of the FXN gene, results in deficiency of the…”
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Epigenetic Heterogeneity in Friedreich Ataxia Underlies Variable FXN Reactivation
Published in Frontiers in neuroscience (25-11-2021)“…Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is typically caused by homozygosity for an expanded GAA triplet-repeat in intron 1 of the gene. The expanded repeat induces repressive…”
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Epigenetic silencing in Friedreich ataxia is associated with depletion of CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) and antisense transcription
Published in PloS one (19-11-2009)“…Over 15 inherited diseases are caused by expansion of triplet-repeats. Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) patients are homozygous for an expanded GAA triplet-repeat…”
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Pms2 suppresses large expansions of the (GAA·TTC)n sequence in neuronal tissues
Published in PloS one (11-10-2012)“…Expanded trinucleotide repeat sequences are the cause of several inherited neurodegenerative diseases. Disease pathogenesis is correlated with several features…”
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FXN Promoter Silencing in the Humanized Mouse Model of Friedreich Ataxia
Published in PloS one (22-09-2015)“…Friedreich ataxia is caused by an expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in intron 1 of the FXN gene that results in epigenetic silencing of the FXN promoter…”
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Progressive gaa expansions in dorsal root ganglia of Friedreich's ataxia patients
Published in Annals of neurology (01-01-2007)“…Objective Friedreich's ataxia patients are homozygous for expanded alleles of a GAA triplet‐repeat sequence in the FXN gene. Patients develop progressive…”
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Uptake of genetic testing and long-term tumor surveillance in von Hippel-Lindau disease
Published in BMC medical genetics (12-01-2010)“…von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a hereditary cancer syndrome caused by germline mutations in the VHL gene. Patients have significant morbidity and mortality…”
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Methylated and unmethylated epialleles support variegated epigenetic silencing in Friedreich ataxia
Published in Human molecular genetics (04-02-2021)“…Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is typically caused by homozygosity for an expanded GAA triplet-repeat in intron 1 of the FXN gene, which results in transcriptional…”
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Altered Nucleosome Positioning at the Transcription Start Site and Deficient Transcriptional Initiation in Friedreich Ataxia
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (30-05-2014)“…Most individuals with Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) are homozygous for an expanded GAA triplet repeat (GAA-TR) mutation in intron 1 of the FXN gene, which results…”
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Epigenetic promoter silencing in Friedreich ataxia is dependent on repeat length
Published in Annals of neurology (01-10-2014)“…Objective Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is caused by an expanded GAA triplet‐repeat (GAA‐TR) mutation in the FXN gene. Patients are typically homozygous for…”
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Reversal of epigenetic promoter silencing in Friedreich ataxia by a class I histone deacetylase inhibitor
Published in Nucleic acids research (20-06-2016)“…Friedreich ataxia, the most prevalent inherited ataxia, is caused by an expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in intron 1 of the FXN gene. Repressive chromatin…”
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Expansion of GAA triplet repeats in the human genome: unique origin of the FRDA mutation at the center of an Alu
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-03-2004)“…Friedreich ataxia is caused by expansion of a GAA triplet repeat (GAA-TR) in the FRDA gene. Normal alleles contain <30 triplets, and disease-causing expansions…”
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Role of transcript and interplay between transcription and replication in triplet-repeat instability in mammalian cells
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-01-2011)“…Triplet-repeat expansions cause several inherited human diseases. Expanded triplet-repeats are unstable in somatic cells, and tissue-specific somatic…”
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Somatic instability of the expanded GAA triplet-repeat sequence in Friedreich ataxia progresses throughout life
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-07-2007)“…Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) patients are homozygous for expanded GAA triplet-repeat alleles in the FXN gene. Primary neurodegeneration involving the dorsal root…”
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Analysis of unstable triplet repeats using small-pool polymerase chain reaction
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2004)“…Small-pool polymerase chain reaction (PCR) constitutes the PCR amplification of a trinucleotide repeat in multiple small pools of input DNA containing in the…”
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Friedreich's Ataxia: Autosomal Recessive Disease Caused by an Intronic GAA Triplet Repeat Expansion
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (08-03-1996)“…Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive, degenerative disease that involves the central and peripheral nervous systems and the heart. A gene, X25,…”
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The GAA triplet-repeat is unstable in the context of the human FXN locus and displays age-dependent expansions in cerebellum and DRG in a transgenic mouse model
Published in Human genetics (01-01-2007)“…Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is caused by homozygosity for FXN alleles containing an expanded GAA triplet-repeat (GAA-TR) sequence. Patients have progressive…”
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Distinct distribution of autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia in the Mexican population
Published in Movement disorders (15-05-2007)“…Dominant ataxias show wide geographic variation. We analyzed 108 dominant families and 123 sporadic ataxia patients from Mexico for mutations causing SCA1–3,…”
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Replication in mammalian cells recapitulates the locus-specific differences in somatic instability of genomic GAA triplet-repeats
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-12-2006)“…Friedreich ataxia is caused by an expanded (GAA·TTC)n sequence in intron 1 of the FXN gene. Small pool PCR analysis showed that pure (GAA·TTC)₄₄₊ sequences at…”
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