Nihar Bhattacharyya, Niuzheng Chai, Nathaniel J Hafford-Tear, Amanda N Sadan, Anita Szabo, Christina Zarouchlioti, Jana Jedlickova, Szi Kay Leung, Tianyi Liao, Lubica Dudakova, Pavlina Skalicka, Mohit Parekh, Ismail Moghul, Aaron R Jeffries, Michael E Cheetham, Kirithika Muthusamy, Alison J Hardcastle, Nikolas Pontikos, Petra Liskova, Stephen J Tuft, Alice E Davidson
Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) is an age-related cause of vision loss, and the most common repeat expansion-mediated disease in humans characterised to date. Up to 80% of European FECD cases have been attributed to expansion of a non-coding CTG repeat element (termed CTG18.1) located within the ubiquitously expressed transcription factor encoding gene, TCF4. The non-coding nature of the repeat and the transcriptomic complexity of TCF4 have made it extremely challenging to experimentally decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying this disease...
May 7, 2024: PLoS Genetics