The inherited neurodegenerative disease Friedreichâ??s ataxia (FRDA) is caused by hyperexpansion of GAAâ?¢TTC trinucleotide repeats within the first intron of the FXN gene, encoding the mitochondrial protein frataxin. Long GAAâ?¢TTC repeats causes heterochromatin-mediated silencing and loss of frata...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens