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Analysis of CAG and CCG repeats in Huntingtin gene among HD patients and normal populations of India.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Sept 2000
Pramanik S, Basu P, Gangopadhaya P K, Sinha K K, Jha D K, Sinha S, Das S K, Maity B K, Mukherjee S C, Roychoudhuri S, Majumder P P, Bhattacharyya N P
Abstract excerpt
We have analysed the distribution of CAG and adjacent polymorphic CCG repeats in the Huntingtin gene in 28 clinically diagnosed unrelated Huntington's disease (HD) patients and in normal individuals belonging to different ethnic groups of India. The range of expanded CAG repeats in HD patients varied from 41 to 56 repeats, whereas in normal individuals this number varied between 11 and 31 repeats. We identified...
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