[Recently, the transglutaminase activity has been hypothesized to be involved in the pathogenetic mechanisms responsible for the formation of cellular inclusions present in Huntington disease and in all the other polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases hitherto identified, such as spinobulbar muscular atrophy or Kennedy disease, spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA-1, SCA-2, SCA-3 or Machado-Joseph disease, SCA-6 and SCA-7) and dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy.]. 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