Autopsy-proven Huntington's disease with 29 trinucleotide repeats

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-130

  Kenney, Christopher ^a   Powell, Suzanne ^a   Jankovic, Joseph ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Chorea; Huntington's disease; Neuropathology; Phenocopy; Trinucleotide repeat

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AUTOPSY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 33847694688     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21195     Document Type: Article

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