A Case of Juvenile Huntington Disease in a 6-Year-Old Boy
Huntington disease is a neurodegenerative disorder distinguished by the triad of dominant inheritance, choreoathetosis and dementia, usually with onset in the fourth and fifth decades. It is caused by an unstable cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) trinucleotide repeat expansion in the gene IT15 in locus...
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Language: | English |
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Korean Movement Disorder Society
2010-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Movement Disorders |
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Online Access: | http://e-jmd.org/upload/jmd-3-2-45-5.pdf |