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Huntington disease: DNA analysis in Brazilian population.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Dec 2000
Raskin S, Allan N, Teive H A, Cardoso F, Haddad M S, Levi G, Boy R, Lerena Junior J, Sotomaior V S, Janzen-Dück M, Jardim L B, Fellander F R, Andrade L A
Abstract excerpt
Huntington disease (HD) is associated with expansions of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in the HD gene. Accurate measurement of a specific CAG repeat sequence in the HD gene in 92 Brazilian controls without HD, 44 Brazilian subjects with clinical findings suggestive of HD and 40 individuals from 6 putative HD families, showed a range from 7 to 33 repeats in normal subjects and 39 to 88 repeats in affected subjects. A...
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