Generation of sibling-matched induced pluripotent stem cell lines from spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy patients

Abstract

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the expansion of CAG repeats in the Androgen Receptor gene (AR). We report the generation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from two SBMA patients and their healthy siblings. The SBMA and healthy iPSC lines retain the number of AR CAG repeats, express pluripotency markers and are able to differentiate into the three germ layers. The iPSC lines are also free of Sendai virus transgenes and have normal karyotypes. The SBMA iPSC lines with their sibling-matched controls would serve as useful tools to study SBMA disease mechanism.