[In our cellular model, full-length expanded ataxin-3 that leads to neurodegenerative disorders significantly impaired the expression of Bcl-2 protein, which may be, at least in part, responsible for the weak tolerance to polyglutamine toxicity at the early stage of disease and ultimately resulted in an increase of stress-induced cell death upon apoptotic stress.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE