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Huntington's disease: predictive testing and the molecular genetics laboratory.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 1993
Lazarou L P, Meredith A L, Myring J M, Tyler A, Morris M, Ball D M, Harper P S
Abstract excerpt
We describe the laboratory-related aspects of a series of 40 completed presymptomatic tests for Huntington's disease, using linked DNA markers. Pedigree structure and marker heterozygosity are shown to be important factors, both in the number of laboratory analyses required to give an informative situation and the residual uncertainty of the final estimate. Specific problems encountered by the testing laboratory...
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