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. 2010 Oct 29;143(3):335-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.10.021.

ATRX: Put me on repeat

Iestyn Whitehouse  1 , Tom Owen-Hughes
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ATRX: Put me on repeat

Iestyn Whitehouse et al. Cell. .
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Mutations in the chromatin-remodeling protein ATRX cause alpha thalassaemia and mental retardation, but the severity of the disorder is independent of the specific mutation. In this issue of Cell, Law et al. (2010) demonstrate that ATRX alters gene expression by binding to G-rich tandem repeats, and the degree of transcriptional silencing caused by ATRX mutations correlates with the number of repeats.

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