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Direct molecular-genetic analysis of the region containing CAG and CCG repeats of the IT15 gene from 37 patients with the clinical diagnosis of Huntington’s chorea was carried out. The allele with the expansion of CAG repeats in the state of heterozygosity was found in 33 patients; DNA analysis did not confirm a clinical diagnosis in four cases. Twenty probable asymptomatic carriers were examined; 11 of them inherited a mutant chromosome. A disequilibrium in the linkage between the (CGG)10 allele and the alleles with the expansion of CAG repeats in the IT15 gene in a group of patients from Ukraine was found. Significant differences in character of instability of CAG repeats that depends on paternal or maternal inheritance were revealed. The genetic factors that are associated with age variability of onset of the disease were studied.
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Original Ukrainian Text © N.V. Gryshchenko, A.M. Kucherenko, E.I. Patscun, L.A. Livshits, 2009, published in Tsitologiya i Genetika, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 42–47.
An erratum to this article can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3103/S0095452709040112.
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Gryshchenko, N.V., Kucherenko, A.M., Patscun, E.I. et al. The study of the association between genotype and phenotypic manifestations of the Huntington’s chorea pathogenesis. Cytol. Genet. 43, 183–187 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0095452709030074
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