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Description: Huntington disease (HD) can arise from a rare, short, in-frame addition of CAG nucleotide triplets within the huntingtin (HTT) gene coding region, which creates a disease-causing allele with the symptoms only appearing later in life. Using this infor

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Huntington disease

Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305251052

Author:Michael Cummings

Publisher:Michael Cummings

Chapter11: Genome Alterations: Mutation And Epigenetics

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Problem 11QP: Two types of mutations discussed in this chapter are (1) nucleotide changes and (2) unstable genome...

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