Article
[Genetic bases in Huntington disease].
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain) - 1 Apr 1999
Benítez J
Abstract excerpt
Huntington disease is a neurodegenerative syndrome of late appearance in 80% of the cases. Its clinical course shows motor and cognitive disorders which lead to total incapacity of the individual 10 to 15 years after the appearance of the first syndromes. From a genetic point of view, this disease is of autosomic dominant inheritance with complete penetration. The gene (IT15) is localized in the short arm of...
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