XL PCR for the detection of large trinucleotide expansions in juvenile Huntington's disease

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-73

  Milunsky, Jeff M ^a   Maher, T A ^a   Loose, B A ^a   Darras, B T ^b   Ito, M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile HD; Seizures; Triplet repeat expansion; XL PCR

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYSTINE; GUANINE; POLYGLUTAMINE; TRINUCLEOTIDE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFANT; ONSET AGE; PATERNALISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEIZURE;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INFANT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0041630698     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2003.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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