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Reduced Cancer Incidence in Huntington's Disease: Analysis in the Registry Study.
Journal of Huntington's disease - 1 Jan 2018
McNulty Paul, Pilcher Richard, Ramesh Raviram, Necuiniate Renata, Hughes Alis, Farewell Daniel, Holmans Peter, Jones Lesley
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: People with Huntington's disease (HD) have been observed to have lower rates of cancers. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between age of onset of HD, CAG repeat length, and cancer diagnosis. METHODS: Data were obtained from the European Huntington's disease network REGISTRY study for 6540 subjects. Population cancer incidence was ascertained from the GLOBOCAN database to obtain standardised...
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