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[Presymptomatic diagnosis in Huntington chorea families using the gene amplification technique]
G Lucotte1, S Berriche, M C Petit
1Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Physique, Collège de France, Paris.
Revue Neurologique
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The presymptomatic diagnosis of Huntington chorea (HC) by genic amplification (PCR: polymerase chain reaction) of a DNA G8 sequence containing a polymorphic HindIII site was tested in a particular HC genealogy. The advantage of this method are discussed.