BREACHing new grounds in fragile X syndrome: Trinucleotide expansion linked to genome-wide heterochromatin domains and genome misfolding
In a recent study in Cell, Malachowski et al.1 show that the trinucleotide expansion in the FMR1 gene underlying fragile X syndrome triggers formation of large heterochromatin domains across the genome, resulting in the repression of synaptic genes housed within these domains.
Source: Molecular Cell - Category: Cytology Authors: Edda G. Schulz Tags: Spotlight Source Type: research