THE ORIGIN OF HUNTINGTONS-CHOREA IN THE AFRIKANER POPULATION OF SOUTH-AFRICA

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 58  (5) , 197-200
Abstract
Huntington''s chorea is prevalent among the Afrikaner population of South Africa. The origin of the gene for the disorder in this population group has been traced over 14 generations from the present time to the days of the 1st free burghers at the Cape of Good Hope. Over 200 affected individuals in > 50 supposedly unrelated families are ancestrally related through a common progenitor in the 17th century.

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