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[Huntington chorea: clniical and molecular analysis in Asturian patients].
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) - 1 Jan 1999
Hernando I, Alvarez V, García Martínez A, Salas Puig J, Fernández Uría D, Martínez C, Vidal Sánchez J A, Lahoz C, Coto E
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: AIM AND PATIENTS: To analyse 38 patients with Huntington's disease from 27 families. RESULTS: The CAG repeat at the huntingtin gene was expanded between 40 and 72 times. The size in normal chromosomes varied from 12 to 30 repeats. We found a significantly negative correlation between the number of CAG-repeats and the age of clinical manifestations. However, age and clinical characteristics of the...
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