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Prevalence of Huntington's Disease Among Uk

Immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Raj S. Shiwach  and
Richard H. Lindenbaum
Raj S. Shiwach*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals Rotation
Richard H. Lindenbaum
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Genetics, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
*
∗Department of Medical Genetics, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LJ
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Abstract

Using the records of Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and those of genetics centres and other national institutions, the minimum prevalence of HD among immigrants from the Indian subcontinent was found to be almost half that found in the indigenous UK population. However, this observed prevalence was probably depressed, and therefore may not differ greatly from that estimated for European populations. All the identified cases were immigrants from Pakistan, the Punjab and Gujerat; none were from Bangladesh.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 598 - 599
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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