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Importance of psychiatric examination in predictive genetic testing for Huntington disease.
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska - 1 Jan 2000
Uhrová Tereza, Zidovská Jana, Koblihová Jana, Klempíř Jiří, Majerová Veronika, Roth Jan
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Huntington disease (HD) is an au-tosomal dominant hereditary neurodegenerative disease with multiplication of CAG triplet in the short arm of chromoso-me 4, manifested by motor symptoms, cognitive dysfunction progressing to dementia, and various types of neuropsychiat-ric disorders. The diagnosis of HD is confirmed by a gene-tic test, which may also be carried out presymptomatically....
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