Meanings
nounsenataxin (plural senataxins)
plural senataxins
- biochemistryAn RNA / DNA helicase
The apparent dominant inheritance pattern (pseudodominant) was the result of the unusual coincidence of both mother and daughter being compound heterozygotes for senataxin mutations.
2015 April 30, Laurence Newrick, Malcolm Taylor, Marios Hadjivassiliou, “Pseudodominant AOA2”, in Cerebellum & Ataxias, volume 2, →DOI
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