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. 2022 May 3;14:750629. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.750629

TABLE 1.

A comparison of repeat diseases with different genetic characteristics shows a common epigenetic signature.

DM1 FXS FRDA ALS (C9ORF72) HD SCA
gene DMPK FMR1 FXN C9ORF72 HTT SCA genes
repeat CTG CGG GAA GGGGCC CAG CAG
disease repeat length 50–5,000 50–200 premutation, >200 full mutation 100–1,200 30–1,600 35–120 33–80
repeat region 3′-UTR 5′-UTR intron 1 intron 1 exon 1 coding exons
methylation increase YES (Steinbach et al., 1998; Lopez Castel et al., 2011; Naumann et al., 2014; Yanovsky-Dagan et al., 2015; Franck et al., 2021) YES (Oberle et al., 1991; Hansen et al., 1992; Sutcliffe et al., 1992; Chiurazzi et al., 1998; Lanni et al., 2013) YES (Al-Mahdawi et al., 2008, 2013; vans-Galea et al., 2012; Quesada et al., 2015; Russ et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2017) YES (Jones and Laird, 1999; Laffita-Mesa et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2014; Gijselinck et al., 2016; Hamzeiy et al., 2018) YES (Lanni et al., 2013) YES (Libby et al., 2008; De Souza et al., 2016)
loss of CTCF binding YES (Thornton et al., 1997; Naumann et al., 2014) YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (Al-Mahdawi et al., 2008; Russ et al., 2015) ? YES (Xi et al., 2013) YES (Tremblay and Jiang, 2019)
heterochromatinization YES (Eriksson et al., 2001; Yanovsky-Dagan et al., 2015; Buckley et al., 2016) YES (Coffee et al., 1999; Gheldof et al., 2006; Biacsi et al., 2008; Kumari and Usdin, 2010) YES (Gheldof et al., 2006; Rai et al., 2008) YES (Gijselinck et al., 2012) ? ?
loss of TAD boundary YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (Sun et al., 2018) YES (SCA1) (Sun et al., 2018)
gene downregulation YES (Fu et al., 1993; Hofmann-Radvanyi and Junien, 1993; Sabouri et al., 1993; Shaw et al., 1993; Jansen et al., 1996; Benders et al., 1997; Berul et al., 1999; Eriksson et al., 2000, 2001; Inukai et al., 2000; Klesert et al., 2000; Mounsey et al., 2000; Sarkar et al., 2000; Depardon et al., 2001; Coffee et al., 2002) YES (Tabolacci et al., 2005; Biacsi et al., 2008; Colak et al., 2014) YES (Gheldof et al., 2006; Al-Mahdawi et al., 2008; De Biase et al., 2009; vans-Galea et al., 2012) YES (DeJesus-Hernandez et al., 2011; Gijselinck et al., 2012; Waite et al., 2014; Thomson and Leavitt, 2018) NO NO