A Worldwide Study of the Huntington's Disease Mutation: The Sensitivity and Specificity of Measuring CAG Repeats
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- 19 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (20), 1401-1406
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199405193302001
Abstract
Huntington's disease is associated with an expanded sequence of CAG repeats in a gene on chromosome 4p16.3. However, neither the sensitivity of expanded CAG repeats in affected persons of different ethnic origins nor the specificity of such repeats for Huntington's disease as compared with other neuropsychiatric disorders has been determined.Keywords
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