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Genetically confirmed clinical Huntington's disease with no observable cell loss.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Jul 2003
Caramins M, Halliday G, McCusker E, Trent R J
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) results from neurodegeneration of the neostriatum. The mutation on chromosome 4 is an expansion in a triplet repeat (CAG)(n) located within the IT15 gene. Only six patients have been reported with clinical features of HD in association with limited neuropathology. Of these, only one has had the diagnosis confirmed by genetic (DNA) testing. We describe a patient with the clinical...
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