The neurodegenerative disease Machado Joseph disease (MJD, also known as spinocerebellar ataxia-3) is a fatal disease that impairs control and co-ordination of movement. MJD is caused by expansion of a trinucleotide (CAG) repeat region within the ATXN3 gene, encoding a long polyglutamine (polyQ) reg...
Spinocerebellar ataxia type-3 (SCA3), also known as Machado Joseph disease, MJD) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease belonging to the polyglutamine repeat disease family, caused by inheritance of an abnormal form of the ATXN3 gene, carrying a longer than usual trinucleotide repeat sequence. Within...
