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The Huntington's disease-like syndromes: what to consider in patients with a negative Huntington's disease gene test.
Nature clinical practice. Neurology - 1 Sept 2007
Schneider Susanne A, Walker Ruth H, Bhatia Kailash P
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD), which is caused by a triplet-repeat expansion in the IT15 gene (also known as huntingtin or HD), accounts for about 90% of cases of chorea of genetic etiology. In recent years, several other distinct genetic disorders have been identified that can present with a clinical picture indistinguishable from that of HD. These disorders are termed Huntington's disease-like (HDL) syndromes. So...
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