trinucleotide repeat expansion

Introduction

Disorders with trinucleotide repeat expansions include

• dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy
• fragile X syndrome
• Friedreich ataxia
• Huntington's disease
• myotonic dystrophy
• olivopontocerebellar atrophy types 1 & 3
• spinocerebellar ataxia types 2, 3, 6
• X-linked bulbospinal muscular atrophy

More general terms

• nucleotide repeat expansion

More specific terms

• TBP gene CAG repeats