title: The Huntington's disease candidate region exhibits many different haplotypes.
abstract: Analysis of 78 Huntington's disease (HD) chromosomes with multi-allele markers revealed 26 different haplotypes, suggesting a variety of independent HD mutations. The most frequent haplotype, accounting for about one third of disease chromosomes, suggests that the disease gene is between D4S182 and D4S180. However, the paucity of an expected class of chromosomes that can be related to this major haplotype by assuming single crossovers may reflect the operation of other mechanisms in creating haplotype diversity. Some of these mechanisms sustain alternative scenarios that do not require a multiple mutational origin for HD and/or its positioning between D4S182 and D4S180.
authors.affiliation: Neurogenetics Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Novelletto
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tagle
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allitto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Altherr
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006239:Haplotypes / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D006816:Huntington Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers; D004247:DNA