Article
Preimplantation diagnosis for Huntington's disease (HD): clinical application and analysis of the HD expansion in affected embryos.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Dec 1998
Sermon K, Goossens V, Seneca S, Lissens W, De Vos A, Vandervorst M, Van Steirteghem A, Liebaers I
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by motor disturbance, cognitive loss and psychiatric manifestations, starting between the fourth and the fifth decade, followed by death within 10-20 years of onset of the disease. The disease-causing mutation is an expansio...
Topics
- Adult
- Blastomeres
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Embryonic Development
- Female
- Genotype
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Huntington Disease
- Lymphocytes
- Male