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Repeat expansion disorders

Chen, Zhongbo; Morris, Huw R; Polke, James; Wood, Nicholas W; Gandhi, Sonia; Ryten, Mina; Houlden, Henry; (2024) Repeat expansion disorders. Practical Neurology 10.1136/pn-2023-003938. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

An increasing number of repeat expansion disorders have been found to cause both rare and common neurological disease. This is exemplified in recent discoveries of novel repeat expansions underlying a significant proportion of several late-onset neurodegenerative disorders, such as CANVAS (cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 27B. Most of the 60 described repeat expansion disorders to date are associated with neurological disease, providing substantial challenges for diagnosis, but also opportunities for management in a clinical neurology setting. Commonalities in clinical presentation, overarching diagnostic features and similarities in the approach to genetic testing justify considering these disorders collectively based on their unifying causative mechanism. In this review, we discuss the characteristics and diagnostic challenges of repeat expansion disorders for the neurologist and provide examples to highlight their clinical heterogeneity. With the ready availability of clinical-grade whole-genome sequencing for molecular diagnosis, we discuss the current approaches to testing for repeat expansion disorders and application in clinical practice.

Type: Article
Title: Repeat expansion disorders
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/pn-2023-003938
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pn-2023-003938
Language: English
Additional information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords: CEREBELLAR ATAXIA, GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, NEUROGENETICS
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197963
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