Andrew Waight

Canada

John Hardy on Expanded Repeat Sequences Raise a Person’s Risk for Alzheimer’s

COMMENT To some extent, repeat expansions have been the dark matter of human disease. They are generally missed by SNP arrays and by short-read sequencing technologies and it is only with long-read sequencing we can see them and also appreciate their high mutatio

Expanded Repeat Sequences Raise a Person’s Risk for Alzheimer’s

RESEARCH NEWS 2025-02-12 Research News Expanded repetitive sequences are infamous for causing inherited disease. Think poly-Q tracts that cause Huntington’s or the C9orf72 hexanucleotide run-ons that trigger ALS/FTD. However, given people have an estimated 1 million short tandem