[These findings suggest that oligomerization of PABPN1 plays a crucial role in the formation of OPMD nuclear protein aggregation, while the expanded polyalanine stretch is necessary but not sufficient to induce OPMD protein aggregation, and that the nuclear protein aggregation might be toxic and cause cell death.]. 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