Huntington’s disease cag trinucleotide repeats in pathologically confirmed post-mortem brains

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 159-166

  Persichetti, Francesca ^a   Srinidhi, Jayalakshmi ^a   Kanaley, Lisa ^b   Ge, Pei ^a   Myers, Richard H ^c   D’Arrigo, Kenneth ^a   Barnes, Glenn T ^a   MacDonald, Marcy E ^a   Vonsattel, Jean Paul ^a   Gusella, James F ^a,d   Bird, Edward D ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycollate; Mutation; Neuropathology; Phenocopy; Post mortem brain; Sodium pentosan polysulphate

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0028677475     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1994.0019     Document Type: Article

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