A GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in intron 1 of the C9ORF72 gene causes familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Aberrant translation of this expansion results in ...
Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...