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Decreased diffusivity in the caudate nucleus of presymptomatic huntington disease gene carriers: which explanation?
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology - 1 Apr 2010
Mandelli M L, Savoiardo M, Minati L, Mariotti C, Aquino D, Erbetta A, Genitrini S, Di Donato S, Bruzzone M G, Grisoli M
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The neostriatum is known to be affected in HD. In this work, our aim was to determine whether microstructural and volumetric alterations occur in the neostriatum of presymptomatic HD gene carriers and in patients with early-stage HD. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied a group of 15 presymptomatic gene carriers who were far from the estimated symptom onset (16% probability of developing the...
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