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Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia
Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder caused by transcriptional silencing of the frataxin gene (FXN) due to expansions of GAA repeats in intron 1. FRDA manifests with multiple symptoms, which may include ataxia, cardiomyopathy and diabetes mellitus. Expanded GAA tracts a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189990 |
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author | Long, Ashlee Napierala, Jill S. Polak, Urszula Hauser, Lauren Koeppen, Arnulf H. Lynch, David R. Napierala, Marek |
author_facet | Long, Ashlee Napierala, Jill S. Polak, Urszula Hauser, Lauren Koeppen, Arnulf H. Lynch, David R. Napierala, Marek |
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description | Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder caused by transcriptional silencing of the frataxin gene (FXN) due to expansions of GAA repeats in intron 1. FRDA manifests with multiple symptoms, which may include ataxia, cardiomyopathy and diabetes mellitus. Expanded GAA tracts are genetically unstable, exhibiting both expansions and contractions. GAA length correlates with severity of FRDA symptoms and inversely with age of onset. Thus, tissue-specific somatic instability of long GAA repeats may be implicated in the development of symptoms and disease progression. Herein, we determined the extent of somatic instability of the GAA repeats in heart, cerebral cortex, spinal cord, cerebellar cortex, and pancreatic tissues from 15 FRDA patients. Results demonstrate differences in the lengths of the expanded GAAs among different tissues, with significantly longer GAA tracts detected in heart and pancreas than in other tissues. The expansion bias detected in heart and pancreas may contribute to disease onset and progression, making the mechanism of somatic instability an important target for therapy. Additionally, we detected significant differences in GAA tract lengths between lymphocytes and fibroblast pairs derived from 16 FRDA patients, with longer GAA tracts present in the lymphocytes. This result urges caution in direct comparisons of data obtained in these frequently used FRDA models. Furthermore, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of the GAA repeat length in lymphocytes collected over a span of 7–9 years and demonstrated progressive expansions of the GAAs with maximum gain of approximately 9 repeats per year. Continuous GAA expansions throughout the patient’s lifespan, as observed in FRDA lymphocytes, should be considered in clinical trial designs and data interpretation. |
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spelling | pubmed-57362102017-12-22 Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia Long, Ashlee Napierala, Jill S. Polak, Urszula Hauser, Lauren Koeppen, Arnulf H. Lynch, David R. Napierala, Marek PLoS One Research Article Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder caused by transcriptional silencing of the frataxin gene (FXN) due to expansions of GAA repeats in intron 1. FRDA manifests with multiple symptoms, which may include ataxia, cardiomyopathy and diabetes mellitus. Expanded GAA tracts are genetically unstable, exhibiting both expansions and contractions. GAA length correlates with severity of FRDA symptoms and inversely with age of onset. Thus, tissue-specific somatic instability of long GAA repeats may be implicated in the development of symptoms and disease progression. Herein, we determined the extent of somatic instability of the GAA repeats in heart, cerebral cortex, spinal cord, cerebellar cortex, and pancreatic tissues from 15 FRDA patients. Results demonstrate differences in the lengths of the expanded GAAs among different tissues, with significantly longer GAA tracts detected in heart and pancreas than in other tissues. The expansion bias detected in heart and pancreas may contribute to disease onset and progression, making the mechanism of somatic instability an important target for therapy. Additionally, we detected significant differences in GAA tract lengths between lymphocytes and fibroblast pairs derived from 16 FRDA patients, with longer GAA tracts present in the lymphocytes. This result urges caution in direct comparisons of data obtained in these frequently used FRDA models. Furthermore, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of the GAA repeat length in lymphocytes collected over a span of 7–9 years and demonstrated progressive expansions of the GAAs with maximum gain of approximately 9 repeats per year. Continuous GAA expansions throughout the patient’s lifespan, as observed in FRDA lymphocytes, should be considered in clinical trial designs and data interpretation. Public Library of Science 2017-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5736210/ /pubmed/29261783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189990 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Long, Ashlee Napierala, Jill S. Polak, Urszula Hauser, Lauren Koeppen, Arnulf H. Lynch, David R. Napierala, Marek Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title | Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title_full | Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title_fullStr | Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title_full_unstemmed | Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title_short | Somatic instability of the expanded GAA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia |
title_sort | somatic instability of the expanded gaa repeats in friedreich’s ataxia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189990 |
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