ArticleMolecular diagnosis & therapy2018
A Study of Triplet-Primed PCR for Identification of CAG Repeat Expansion in the HTT Gene in a Cohort of 503 Indian Cases with Huntington's Disease Symptoms.
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- Burden of rare genetic disorders in India: twenty-two years' experience of a tertiary centre.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2024Article
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- Psychiatric morbidity and poor follow-up underlie suboptimal functional and survival outcomes in Huntington's disease.BMC neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundHuntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disorder with an average age at onset of 40 years. It is a polyglutamine (polyQ) disorder that is caused by an increase in the number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Genetic tests that accurately determine the number of CAG repeats are performed for confirmation of diagnosis, predictive testing of persons at genetic risk for inheriting HD, and prenatal testing. The aim of our study was to evaluate efficacy of triplet-primed polymerase chain reaction (TP-PCR) for routine diagnosis of HD in suspected cases from India.
methodsWe evaluated a combination of CAG flanking PCR and triplet-primed PCR for estimation of CAG repeats in 503 cases with clinical suspicion of HD.
resultsThere were 250 cases (49.7%) that showed the presence of expanded alleles, with 241 (47.9%) being fully penetrant alleles and nine (1.8%) in the reduced penetrance category. There were seven juvenile cases with an age of onset of < 20 years, with the longest allele comprising 106 CAG repeats found in an 8-year-old male patient. The results demonstrated an inverse (R = - 0.67) relationship between CAG length and age at clinical onset.
conclusionOur study on pan-Indian cases is one of the largest studies reported so far in India and focuses on the most accurate and comprehensive molecular diagnostic evaluation of HD.
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