Article
A linkage study with DNA markers (D4S95, D4S115, and D4S111) in Japanese Huntington disease families.
The Japanese journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 1993
Watanabe M, Kondo I, Nissato S, Wakisaka A, Toda T, Ikeda J, Wasmuth J J, Gusella J F, Kanazawa I
Abstract excerpt
Attempts to isolate the Huntington disease (HD) gene based on its position have been frustrated by apparently contradictory recombination events in HD pedigrees that have predicted two non-overlapping candidate regions: 100 kb at the telomere of the short arm of chromosome 4, and a 2.2 Mb region...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Asian People
- Chromosome Mapping
- Family Health
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Genome
- Humans
- Huntington Disease
- Japan
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
