The normal human FMR1 gene contains a genetically stable (CGG) n trinucleotide repeat which usually carries interspersed AGG triplets. An increase in repeat number and the loss of interspersions results in array instability, predominantly expansion, leading to FMR1 gene silencing. Instability is directly related to the length of the uninterrupted (CGG) n repeat and is widely assumed to be relat...

Impulsivity is a personality trait characterized by acting suddenly in an unplanned manner in order to satisfy a desire without consideration for the consequences of such behavior. There are several psychiatric disorders that include the term impulsivity as a criterion and, therefore, it has been suggested that impulsivity may be an important phenotype that may link a number of different behavi...

Antibodies can be extremely useful tools for the field of triplet repeat diseases. These reagents are important for localizing proteins in tissues, and within cells, they can be used in the isolation and characterization of the components of protein complexes, they can distinguish proteins with normal or an expanded polyglutamine repeat, they may be able to distinguish distinct conformations of...

A 24 triplet TGG.CCA repeat array shows length- and orientation-dependent propagation when present in the plasmid pUC18. When TGG(24) is present as template for leading-strand synthesis, plasmid recovery is normal in all strains tested. However, when it acts as template for lagging-strand synthesis, plasmid propagation is seriously compromised. Plasmids carrying deletions in the 5' side of this...

electronic effects were investigated on the singlet–triplet energy gaps of divalent unsaturated seven- membered ring r2c6h6m (m=c, si, ge, sn, pb, r= –h, -ch3, i-pr , t-bu) at b3lyp/6-311++g** level. all the triplet states of r2c6h6c were more stable than the related the singlet states while all the singlet states of r2c6h6m (m= si, ge, sn, pb, r= –h, -ch3, i-pr , t-bu) were more stable than th...