Alexander Disease Research Update - Episode #10: effects of variants in the rod domain on GFAP assembly and aggregation, new ideas about functions of intermediate filaments

Albee Messing and Natasha Snider discuss the following recent publication: 

[04:44]       Effects of Alexander disease-associated mutations on the assembly and organization of GFAP intermediate filaments (Molecular Biology of the Cell, in press) 

[28:53]       Questions from email regarding heritability, penetrance, and skipping generations.

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Chapters

• 4:44 Effects of Alexander disease-associated mutations on the assembly and organization of GFAP intermediate filaments
• 28:53 Questions from email