Nada Kojak, Junko Kuno, Kristina E Fittipaldi, Ambereen Khan, David Wenger, Michael Glasser, Roberto A Donnianni, Yajun Tang, Jade Zhang, Katie Huling, Roxanne Ally, Alejandro O Mujica, Terrence Turner, Gina Magardino, Pei Yi Huang, Sze Yen Kerk, Gustavo Droguett, Marine Prissette, Jose Rojas, Teodoro Gomez, Anthony Gagliardi, Charleen Hunt, Jeremy S Rabinowitz, Guochun Gong, William Poueymirou, Eric Chiao, Brian Zambrowicz, Chia-Jen Siao, Daisuke Kajimura
Expansion of a G4C2 repeat in the C9orf72 gene is associated with familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). To investigate the underlying mechanisms of repeat instability, which occurs both somatically and intergenerationally, we created a novel mouse model of familial ALS/FTD that harbors 96 copies of G4C2 repeats at a humanized C9orf72 locus. In mouse embryonic stem cells, we observed two modes of repeat expansion. First, we noted minor increases in repeat length per expansion event, which was dependent on a mismatch repair pathway protein Msh2...
April 10, 2024: Nucleic Acids Research