Intergeneration CAG expansion in a Wuhan juvenile-onset Huntington disease family

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 198-202

  Liu, Yuan ^a   Shen, Yan ^b   Li, He ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Yang, Zhen Rong ^a   Chen, Yan ^a   Tang, Yan Ping ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Early diagnosis; Genetic anticipation; Huntington disease; Trinucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ADULT; CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 34748918304     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-007-0029-7     Document Type: Article

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