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Factors influencing age at onset and duration of survival in Huntington's chorea
Author(s) -
NEWCOMBE R. G.,
WALKER D. A.,
HARPER P. S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1981.tb00352.x
Subject(s) - chorea , huntington's disease , duration (music) , cohort , age of onset , medicine , pediatrics , demography , survival analysis , psychology , disease , art , literature , sociology
SUMMARY Life table techniques permit a more appropriate assessment of the effect of such factors as sex, line of transmission, birth cohort and kindred upon the age at onset and the duration of survival subsequent to onset in Huntington's chorea.