The neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3; also called Machado-Joseph disease, MJD) is a trinucleotide repeat disorder caused by expansion of CAG repeats which encoding an abnormal long polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in ataxin-3 of the ATXN3 gene. Even now the pathogenic mechani...
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens