DNA methylation study of Huntington’s disease and motor progression in patients and in animal models
oleh: Ake T. Lu, Pritika Narayan, Matthew J. Grant, Peter Langfelder, Nan Wang, Seung Kwak, Hilary Wilkinson, Richard Z. Chen, Jian Chen, C. Simon Bawden, Skye R. Rudiger, Marc Ciosi, Afroditi Chatzi, Alastair Maxwell, Timothy A. Hore, Jeff Aaronson, Jim Rosinski, Alicia Preiss, Thomas F. Vogt, Giovanni Coppola, Darren Monckton, Russell G. Snell, X. William Yang, Steve Horvath
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01 |
Deskripsi
Although Huntington’s disease (HD) is a well-studied genetic disorder, less is known about the epigenetic changes underlying it. Here, the authors characterize DNA methylation levels in tissues from patients, a mouse huntingtin (Htt) gene knock-in model, and a transgenic HTT sheep model, and provide evidence that HD is accompanied by DNA methylation changes in these three species.