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The number of CAG repeats within the normal allele does not influence the age of onset in Huntington's disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Jan 2011
Klempíř Jiří, Zidovská Jana, Stochl Jan, Ing Věra Kebrdlová, Uhrová Tereza, Roth Jan
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by the expansion of the number of CAG repeats on the chromosome 4p16.3, which results in elongated glutamine tract of huntingtin. The purpose of this work was to examine the interaction between the normal and mutant alleles of this gene and their effect on the clinical onset of HD. We hypothesized that in patients with identical number of CAG repeats within the mutant allele,...
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