[Expansion of trinucleotide repeats has been identified as a common mechanism of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases including spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), Huntington's disease, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA), Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), fragile X syndrome, myotonic dystrophy and Friedreich's ataxia.]. 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