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Association of obsessive‐compulsive disorder and pathological gambling with Huntington's disease in an Italian pedigree: possible association with Huntington's disease mutation
Author(s) -
Marchi N.,
Morris M.,
Mennella R.,
Pia S. La,
Nestadt G.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09964.x
Subject(s) - huntington's disease , pathological , disease , obsessive compulsive , mutation , association (psychology) , impulse control disorder , psychiatry , degenerative disease , psychology , medicine , genetics , gene , biology , psychotherapist
This paper describes a pedigree with Huntington's disease (HD), in which three cases of obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) and two cases of pathological gambling (PG) were identified. The mutation analysis of the HD gene was carried out in the examined individuals who were at risk for HD. In fact, OCD and PG only occurred in carriers of the HD expansion. The possible implications of this finding are discussed.