Out of LINE: Transposons, genome integrity, and neurodegeneration.

Neuron

Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research, St. Jude Translational Neuroscience, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA; St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Electronic address:

Published: October 2022

Abnormal activity of LINE-1 transposable elements has been associated with neurological disease. In this issue of Neuron, Takahashi et al. (2022) show that L1 hyperactivity occurs in the neurodegenerative syndrome ataxia telangiectasia and causes ataxia and cerebellar degeneration in mice.

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