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Molecular genetics of Huntington's disease.
Archives of neurology - 1 Nov 1993
Gusella J F, MacDonald M E, Ambrose C M, Duyao M P
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease is an inherited disorder in which selective neuronal loss in the brain leads to a characteristic choreic movement disorder. The successful mapping of the Huntington's disease gene to chromosome 4 set off a torrent of similar studies in other inherited disorders as investigators attempted to locate and isolate human disease genes with this new approach. Although it took a decade-long quest...
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