Article
Diagnosis of "sporadic" Huntington's disease.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Mar 1995
Dürr A, Dodé C, Hahn V, Pêcheux C, Pillon B, Feingold J, Kaplan J C, Agid Y, Brice A
Abstract excerpt
The diagnosis of Huntington's disease (HD) in patients with progressive chorea and mental impairment, but without similarly affected relatives, remains uncertain and impedes genetic counseling. Twenty patients with suspected HD, but with no family history of the disease underwent molecular analysis of the CAG repeat in the IT15 gene for HD. Eighteen patients displayed the HD expanded allele and two had CAG...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Humans
- Huntington Disease
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
