Test for Huntington's disease

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1984-08-15

1987-05-19

Kepplinger, Esther M.

Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology

Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...

Involving nucleic acid

435 91, 4351723, 436811, 935 9, 935 78, C12Q 168, C12N 1500, C12P 1934

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ABSTRACT:
A method for detecting the presence of the gene for Huntington's disease in a subject which comprises analyzing the human chromosome 4 of the subject for a DNA polymorphism, preferably a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), linked to Huntington's Disease.

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Housman, D. et al. In: Genetic Research Strategies For Psychobiology And Psychiatry, (Gershon, E. S. et al., editors), Boxwood Press, CA., 1981, pp. 17-24.
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Gusella et al., Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 37 (1-4): 484-485 (1984).

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