The relationship between trinucleotide (CAG) repeat length and clinical features of Huntington's disease - PubMed (original) (raw)
The relationship between trinucleotide (CAG) repeat length and clinical features of Huntington's disease
S E Andrew et al. Nat Genet. 1993 Aug.
Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is associated with the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in a novel gene. We have assessed 360 HD individuals from 259 unrelated families and found a highly significant correlation (r = 0.70, p = 10(-7)) between the age of onset and the repeat length, which accounts for approximately 50% of the variation in the age of onset. Significant associations were also found between repeat length and age of death and onset of other clinical features. Sib pair and parent-child analysis revealed that the CAG repeat demonstrates only mild instability. Affected HD siblings had significant correlations for trinucleotide expansion (r = 0.66, p < 0.001) which was not apparent for affected parent-child pairs.
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- Huntington's disease: testing the test.
Read AP. Read AP. Nat Genet. 1993 Aug;4(4):329-30. doi: 10.1038/ng0893-329. Nat Genet. 1993. PMID: 8401575 No abstract available.
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