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Browsing Neurology by Subject "African ancestry"
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Narotam-Jeena, Heena; Guttman, Mark; Van Hillegondsberg, Ludo; Van Coller, Riaan; Krause, Amanda; Carr, Jonathan
(Wiley, 2024-07)
BACKGROUND : Huntington disease-like 2 (HDL2) is a neurodegenerative disorder, affecting only individuals of African ancestry. Full penetrance occurs in individuals with 40 repeats or more. OBJECTIVE : To describe the ...
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Mahungu, Amokelani C.; Anderson, David G.; Rossouw, Anastasia C.; Van Coller, Riaan; Carr, Jonathan A.; Ross, Owen A.; Bardien, Soraya
(Elsevier, 2020-04)
Sequence variants in glucocerebrosidase (GBA) are a major genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease (PD), and display ethnic-dependent frequencies, for example, variants such as p.N370S and 84insGG are common in Ashkenazi ...