Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin gene. A minimum of 36 CAG repeats is usually reported in patients with clinical features of HD; 30 to 35 repeats represent an intermediate range. Here we report a 65-yea
Autopsy-proven Huntington's disease with 29 trinucleotide repeats
β Scribed by Norman Reynolds
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 58 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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