Autopsy-proven Huntington's disease with 29 trinucleotide repeats. |
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| Authors: | Christopher Kenney Suzanne Powell Joseph Jankovic |
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| Affiliation: | Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. kenney@bcm.edu |
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| Abstract: | Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin gene. A minimum of 36 CAG repeats is usually reported in patients with clinical features of HD; 30 to 35 repeats represent an intermediate range. Here we report a 65-year-old male with autopsy-proven HD and 29 CAG repeats. |
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| Keywords: | Huntington's disease phenocopy autopsy trinucleotide repeat neuropathology chorea |
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