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Homozygosity in Huntington’s disease
1 Feb 1999
Abstract excerpt
Editor—Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by the association of choreic movements and cognitive/psychiatric changes. In 1993, the HD Collaborative Research Group reported the identification of the IT15 gene, which encodes a protein named huntingtin that carries an unstable and expanded CAG repeat in patients.1 Normal alleles are polymorphic with 11 to 35 CAG repeats, whereas...
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