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Recent advances in understanding the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease.
Trends in neurosciences - 1 Jun 1999
Reddy P H, Williams M, Tagle D A
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal, dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by abnormal involuntary movements (chorea), intellectual impairment and selective neuronal loss. The expansion of a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat (the sequence CAG that codes for glutamine) to a length that exceeds 40 repeat units in exon 1 of the gene, HD, correlates with the onset and progression...
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