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Some Observations on Huntington's Chorea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. D. Forrest
A. D. Forrest*
Affiliation:
Bangour Village Hospital, Broxburn, West Lothian
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The first distinctive account of this condition was given by George Huntington, a physician of Long Island, in 1872. Since then our knowledge regarding aetiology has not advanced greatly, though the hereditary nature of the illness and the fact that it is transmitted as a Mendelian dominant by both sexes has been established.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 432 , July 1957 , pp. 507 - 513
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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