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Analysis of a very large trinucleotide repeat in a patient with juvenile Huntington's disease.
Neurology - 15 Jan 1999
Nance M A, Mathias-Hagen V, Breningstall G, Wick M J, McGlennen R C
Abstract excerpt
A patient with juvenile Huntington's disease (HD) of probable maternal inheritance is reported. The expanded IT-15 allele was only detected with the use of modified PCR and Southern transfer techniques, which showed a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion of approximately 250 repeats-the largest CAG expansion reported within the huntingtin gene. This case emphasizes the need for communication between the diagnostic...
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