Description: Within the last few years, substantial advances have been made in the understanding of human genetic disorders and how they occur. Discoveries have revealed that a family of hereditary neurological diseases are caused by the expansion of certain simple genetic elements. These findings lay the basis for exciting new research efforts to understand the causes of these diseases. Whereas enormous progress has been made, substantial additional effort must be expended to provide effective therapy and prevention for the patients and their families who suffer from these devastating syndromes. This book presents a number of these disorders from the molecular standpoint. It will be of importance to medical geneticists interested in the effects of triplet repeats and the onset of the disorder, and to the neurologists attempting to understand the disorder.

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