A recurrent expansion of a maternal allele with 36 CAG repeats causes Huntington disease in two sisters

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1145-1148

  Laccone, Franco ^a,b   Christian, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Institute of Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MOSAICISM; ONSET AGE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0033912698     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302810     Document Type: Article

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