Reduced Cancer Incidence in Huntington's Disease: Analysis in the Registry Study.

P, McNulty; R, Pilcher; R, Ramesh; R, Necuiniate; A, Hughes; D, Farewell; P, Holmans; L, Jones

doi:10.3233/jhd-170263

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Reduced Cancer Incidence in Huntington's Disease: Analysis in the Registry Study.

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McNulty P

Pilcher R

Ramesh R

Abstract

Background People with Huntington's disease (HD) have been observed to have lower rates of cancers.Objective To investigate the relationship between age of onset of HD, CAG repeat length, and cancer diagnosis.Methods Data were obtained from the European Huntington's disease network REGISTRY study fo...

Subject

Cancer

Trinucleotide repeat

Neurodegeneration

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