Article
Familial aggregation of schizophrenia-like symptoms in Huntington's disease.
American journal of medical genetics - 10 Jul 1998
Tsuang D, DiGiacomo L, Lipe H, Bird T D
Abstract excerpt
An increased incidence of schizophrenia-like symptoms in Huntington's disease (HD) has been well-documented in the past. The reasons for this association, however, have never been explained. At the University of Washington Medical Genetics Clinic, we had the opportunity to evaluate a unique juven...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Causality
- Child, Preschool
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Huntington Disease
- Incidence
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
- Schizophrenia
- Trinucleotide Repeats