The challenge of juvenile Huntington disease: To test or not to test

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 990-996

  Koutsis, Georgios ^a   Karadima, Georgia ^a   Kladi, Athina ^a   Panas, Marios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876267263     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31828727fa     Document Type: Article

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