Predictive testing for huntington diseas
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Kessler, Seymour
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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After the discovery of genetic markers closely linked t o the gene for Huntington disease (HD) on chromosome 4 [Gusella et al., 19831, several centers in the U.S. and elsewhere began to offer a presymptomatic test for individuals at risk for this disorder. Since the mid-198O's, more than 1,000 perso