Tissue specificity in DNA repair: lessons from trinucleotide repeat instability

Dion, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4953-7637 2014. Tissue specificity in DNA repair: lessons from trinucleotide repeat instability. Trends in Genetics 30 (6) , 220--229. 10.1016/j.tig.2014.04.005

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Abstract

DNA must constantly be repaired to maintain genome stability. Although it is clear that DNA repair reactions depend on cell type and developmental stage, we know surprisingly little about the mechanisms that underlie this tissue specificity. This is due, in part, to the lack of adequate study systems. This review discusses recent progress toward understanding the mechanism leading to varying rates of instability at expanded trinucleotide repeats (TNRs) in different tissues. Although they are not DNA lesions, TNRs are hotspots for genome instability because normal DNA repair activities cause changes in repeat length. The rates of expansions and contractions are readily detectable and depend on cell identity, making TNR instability a particularly convenient model system. A better understanding of this type of genome instability will provide a foundation for studying tissue-specific DNA repair more generally, which has implications in cancer and other diseases caused by mutations in the caretakers of the genome.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0168-9525
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 13:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120286

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