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Factors associated with HD CAG repeat instability in Huntington disease

V C Wheeler1, F Persichetti, S M McNeil

  • 1Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. wheeler@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Journal of Medical Genetics
|July 31, 2007
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