Huntington's disease: Molecular genetics, mutation and predictive testing;CHOREA HUNTINGTON. MOLEKULARGENETISCHE GRUNDLAGEN, MUTATIONSNACHWEIS UND PRADIKTIVE DIAGNOSTIK

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Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-35

  Zühlke, Christine ^a,b   Thies, Ulrike ^a  

^a Institut fur Humangenetik   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Humangenetik   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA diagnosis; expansion; Huntington's disease; predictive test; testing uptake; trinucleotide repeat; unstable DNA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0030061359     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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