Huntington's chorea. Report of a chinese family in Singapore.
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Most of the reports on family groups of Huntington's chorea have come from the United States, Britain, the European Continent, and Australia. Sporadic cases, however, have been described in many countries, and in many races-American Negroes (Drewry, 1895), Africans (Gordon, 1935; Klintworth, 1962), Egyptians (El Garem, 1958), Indians (Chuttani, 1957), and Japanese (Kishimoto, 1957). Familial cases in Chinese have been recorded by Singer (1962) who found 8 cases in 4 generations in one family in Hong Kong, and by Tsuang (1969) from Taiwan who reported another family with 11 cases in 4 generations. The present study deals with a Chinese family in Singapore in which there were 5 cases over 3 generations.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of medical genetics
دوره 7 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1970