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Huntington's Disease
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....s in chorea, or irregular,
jerking movements of the limbs caused by involuntary muscle contractions, and
dementia. It can cause a lack of concentration and depression. It also may
cause atrophy of the caudate nucleus, a part of the brain. However, symptoms
vary between individuals, with some sufferers showing sympto.... Part 2 of Paper
....ffering from Huntington's
disease, the number of repeats of a certain trinucleotide, cytozine-adenine-
guanine (CAG), is much larger than what it is in a normal person. In an average
person, the number of repeats is between 9 and 37. But is a sufferer of HD, the
repeat count is from 37 to 86. While nobody has found a direct correlation
between the number of repeats and the age when symptoms appear, there is
evidence that people with very high numbers of repeats contract the rarer early-
onset.... |
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