Respiratory dysfunction in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7

• Main Authors: Anna F. Fusco (Author), Logan A. Pucci (Author), Pawel M. Switonski (Author), Debolina D. Biswas (Author), Angela L. McCall (Author), Amanda F. Kahn (Author), Justin S. Dhindsa (Author), Laura M. Strickland (Author), Albert R. La Spada (Author), Mai K. ElMallah (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the coding region of the ataxin-7 gene. Infantile-onset SCA7 patients display extremely large repeat expansions (>200 CAGs) and exhibit progressive ataxia, dysarthria, dysp...