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C Pêcheux1, J F Mouret, A Dürr, Y Agid, J Feingold, A Brice, C Dodé, J C Kaplan.
Abstract
The CAG expansion responsible for Huntington's disease (HD) is followed by an adjacent polymorphic CCG repeat region which may interfere with a PCR based diagnosis. We have sequenced this region in 52 unrelated HD patients, from both normal and HD chromosomes. Fifty percent of the normal alleles were (CCG)7(CCT)2, 48% (CCG)10(CCT)2, and 2% (CCG)7(CCT)3. In contrast (CCG)7(CCT)2 was found in 85% of the HD alleles which represents significant linkage disequilibrium with the HD mutation.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 7616551 PMCID: PMC1050439 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.32.5.399
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Genet ISSN: 0022-2593 Impact factor: 6.318