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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Main Authors: Jun-Sang Sunwoo, Soon-Tae Lee, Manho Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Movement Disorder Society 2010-10-01
Series:Journal of Movement Disorders
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Online Access:http://e-jmd.org/upload/jmd-3-2-45-5.pdf