30 years of repeat expansion disorders: What have we learned and what are the remaining challenges?

C Depienne, JL Mandel - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Tandem repeats represent one of the most abundant class of variations in human genomes,
which are polymorphic by nature and become highly unstable in a length-dependent …

Advancing genomic technologies and clinical awareness accelerates discovery of disease-associated tandem repeat sequences

T Gall-Duncan, N Sato, RKC Yuen… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Expansions of gene-specific DNA tandem repeats (TRs), first described in 1991 as a
disease-causing mutation in humans, are now known to cause> 60 phenotypes, not just …

Long-read sequencing identifies GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC associated with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

J Sone, S Mitsuhashi, A Fujita, T Mizuguchi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease
that is characterized by eosinophilic hyaline intranuclear inclusions in neuronal and somatic …

Noncoding CGG repeat expansions in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease, oculopharyngodistal myopathy and an overlapping disease

H Ishiura, S Shibata, J Yoshimura, Y Suzuki, W Qu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Noncoding repeat expansions cause various neuromuscular diseases, including myotonic
dystrophies, fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, some spinocerebellar ataxias, amyotrophic …

Expansion of human-specific GGC repeat in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease-related disorders

Y Tian, JL Wang, W Huang, S Zeng, B Jiao, Z Liu… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a slowly progressing neurodegenerative
disease characterized by eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions in the nervous system and …

[HTML][HTML] Translation of GGC repeat expansions into a toxic polyglycine protein in NIID defines a novel class of human genetic disorders: the polyG diseases

M Boivin, J Deng, V Pfister, E Grandgirard… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a neurodegenerative disease
characterized by the presence of intranuclear inclusions of unknown origin. NIID is caused …

Expansion of GGC repeat in the human-specific NOTCH2NLC gene is associated with essential tremor

QY Sun, Q Xu, Y Tian, ZM Hu, LX Qin, JX Yang… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders. Despite its high
prevalence and heritability, the genetic aetiology of essential tremor remains elusive. Up to …

The GGC repeat expansion in NOTCH2NLC is associated with oculopharyngodistal myopathy type 3

J Yu, J Deng, X Guo, J Shan, X Luan, L Cao, J Zhao… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Oculopharyngodistal myopathy (OPDM) is an adult-onset neuromuscular disease
characterized by progressive ocular, facial, pharyngeal and distal limb muscle involvement …

CGG expansion in NOTCH2NLC is associated with oculopharyngodistal myopathy with neurological manifestations

M Ogasawara, A Iida, T Kumutpongpanich… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2020 - Springer
Oculopharyngodistal myopathy (OPDM) is a rare hereditary muscle disease characterized
by progressive distal limb weakness, ptosis, ophthalmoplegia, bulbar muscle weakness and …

Clinical features of NOTCH2NLC-related neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

Y Tian, L Zhou, J Gao, B Jiao, S Zhang… - Journal of Neurology …, 2022 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Abnormal expanded GGC repeats within the NOTCH2HLC gene has been
confirmed as the genetic mechanism for most Asian patients with neuronal intranuclear …