Reduced cancer incidence in Huntington's disease: record linkage study clue to an evolutionary trade-off?

Clin Genet. 2013 Jun;83(6):588-90. doi: 10.1111/cge.12010. Epub 2012 Sep 28.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cohort Studies
  • Comorbidity / trends
  • England / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Huntington Disease / epidemiology*
  • Huntington Disease / genetics
  • Incidence
  • International Classification of Diseases
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Peptides / genetics
  • Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion / genetics

Substances

  • Peptides
  • polyglutamine