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Case of maternally transmitted juvenile Huntington's disease with a very large trinucleotide repeat.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Oct 2005
Papapetropoulos Spiridon, Lopez-Alberola Roberto, Baumbach Lisa, Russell Angela, Gonzalez Manuel A, Bowen Brian C, Singer Carlos
Abstract excerpt
We describe and present a video of a patient with maternally inherited juvenile Huntington's disease (HD) caused by a very large (108-repeat) expansion. Maternally transmitted very large trinucleotide repeats (>100) are extremely rare in juvenile HD and may represent instability during female gametogenesis.
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