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Huntington's disease.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Dec 1996
Craufurd D
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is a late-onset degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, caused by a dominantly inherited mutation in a gene on chromosome 4p. The identification of the trinucleotide repeat mutation responsible for this disorder has been an important step towards understanding the molecular pathology of HD, but in the meantime has also made it possible to offer predictive testing and...
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