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Diagnosis of Patients Presenting to a Huntington Disease (HD) Clinic without a Family History of HD Neurol 47:1578-1580, Nance,M.A.,et al, 1996 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract About 9%of patients presenting to a Huntington disease(HD)clinic for evaluation of possible HD lacked a family history of the disorder.HD was the final diagnosis in 53 to 83%of these patients.As a group,HD-affected individuals without a family history of HD were older and had fewer CAG repeats than the average HD patient.Some patients presenting with chorea only had HD and others did not;patients developing a movement disorder after long-standing neuroleptic-treated psychiatric illness did not have HD.

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