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In the remote village of San Luis by the shore of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela lives a community unusually heavily afflicted with an inherited nerve-wasting condition called Huntington’s disease. People with this disease develop involuntary limb movements when in their 30s or 40s, followed by paralysis. Bizarrely, the disease gets worse over successive generations.
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Clayton, J., Dennis, C. (2003). Gene detectives. In: Clayton, J., Dennis, C. (eds) 50 Years of DNA. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11781-6_8
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