Trinucleotide Repeat Disorders - Types

Types

In over half of these disorders, the repeated codon is CAG, which in a coding region, codes for glutamine (Q), resulting in a polyglutamine tract. These diseases are commonly referred to as polyglutamine (or PolyQ) diseases. The remaining disorders repeated codons do not code for glutamine and are classified as non-polyglutamine diseases.

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