Analysis of CAG repeat expansion in Huntington's disease gene (IT 15) in a Hungarian population

European Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-110

  Jakab, Katalin ^a,b   Gárdián, Gabriella ^a,b   Endreffy, Emôke ^b   Kalmár, Tibor ^c   Bachrati, Csanád ^a   Vecsei L ^b   Rasko I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c NONE

Author keywords

CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion; Huntington's disease; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 4; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUNGARY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; HUNGARY; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 0344609305     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000008013     Document Type: Article

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