Article
Mutation analysis in patients with possible but apparently sporadic Huntington's disease.
Lancet (London, England) - 10 Sept 1994
Davis M B, Bateman D, Quinn N P, Marsden C D, Harding A E
Abstract excerpt
Until the advent of mutation analysis it was impossible to make a certain diagnosis of Huntington's disease (HD) in the absence of a positive family history, and sporadic cases of possible HD presented a substantial diagnostic dilemma. We have looked for the characteristic expanded trinucleotide...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4
- DNA
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Humans
- Huntington Disease
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotides
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
