Association of Huntington's disease and schizophrenia-like psychosis in a Huntington's disease pedigree

Background: Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited, neurodegenerative disorder due to expansion of a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat in the short arm of chromosome 4. Clinical manifestations consist of a triad of choreic movements, cognitive decline and psychiatric syndromes start...

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Main Author: Corrêa, Bernardo Barahona (author)
Other Authors: Xavier, Miguel (author), Guimarães, João (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-0179-2-1
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/24040