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Typical Huntington's disease (HD) was studied in a 40-year-old Sudanese man from Khartoum. He had 51 CAG repeats in the Huntington's gene. It is suspected that his mother and his 16-year-old son (both deceased) were also affected. Up to now, there had only been anecdotal evidence of HD in the Sudanese.
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Scrimgeour, E.M., Samman, Y. & Brock, D.J.H. Huntington's disease in a Sudanese family from Khartoum. Hum Genet 96, 624–625 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00197424
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