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June 15, 2021  |  Presentation

Uncovering Neurological Disorders Through an Examination of VNTRs

Many neurological diseases result from expansion of unstable variable nucleotide tandem repeats (VNTRs) that influence gene transcription of neighboring genes. In this talk, Dr. Henne Holstege presents research that investigated VNTRs across several genomes including a 115-year-old cognitively healthy individual. She and her group found that the genes that contained most VNTRs, of which PTPRN2 and DLGAP2 are the most prominent examples, were found to be predominantly expressed in the brain and associated with a wide variety of neurological disorders.

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