What is the trinucleotide sequence that is unstable and expands in Friedreich’s Ataxia? Explain what the different health and evolutionary consequences for the expansion of a trinucleotide repeat within coding sequences and dinucleotide repeat in non-coding sequences are.

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What is the trinucleotide sequence that is unstable and expands in Friedreich’s Ataxia? Explain what the different health and evolutionary consequences for the expansion of a trinucleotide repeat within coding sequences and dinucleotide repeat in non-coding sequences are.

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