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Huntington's disease: how intermediate are intermediate repeat lengths?
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Dec 2012
Squitieri Ferdinando, Jankovic Joseph
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BACKGROUND: Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating heredoneurodegenerative disorder associated with a wide variety of neurological and psychiatric symptoms caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the HTT gene. The expansion mutation in HTT is dominantly transmitted and codes for a protein named huntingtin (htt). HYPOTHESIS: One hypothesis, according to a multistep mechanism, is that the intergenerational...
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