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New Huntington disease mutation arising from a paternal CAG34 allele showing somatic length variation in serially passaged lymphoblasts.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Feb 2005
Cannella Milena, Maglione Vittorio, Martino Tiziana, Simonelli Maria, Ragona Giuseppe, Squitieri Ferdinando
Abstract excerpt
The analysis of somatic CAG triplet variation in lymphoblastoid cell lines from subjects carrying alleles of intermediate length (IA(33CAG) and IA(34CAG)) in Huntington disease (HD) gene disclosed instability in the DNA of the person, from whom a new expansion mutation of 45 triplets originated....
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