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Effect of CAG repeat length on psychiatric disorders in Huntington's disease.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Jun 2008
Vassos Evangelos, Panas Marios, Kladi Athina, Vassilopoulos Dimitrios
Abstract excerpt
There is strong evidence that the length of CAG repeats, in patients with Huntington's disease (HD), govern the age of onset and the rate of clinical progression of neurological symptoms. However, psychiatric manifestations of the disease have not been examined as comprehensively. Seventy two Greek patients with Huntington's disease had DNA testing and were clinically assessed by means of a semi-structured...
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