Huntington's disease as caused by 34 CAG repeats

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 879-881

  Andrich, Jürgen ^a   Arning, Larissa ^b   Wieczorek, Stefan ^b   Kraus, Peter H ^a   Gold, Ralf ^a   Saft, Carsten ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

34 CAG units; Huntington's disease; Intermediate length alleles

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; HUNTINGTIN;

AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSTONIA; EYE TRACKING; FAMILY HISTORY; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERKINESIA; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VIDEORECORDING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 48649083048     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21958     Document Type: Article

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