Huntington's disease (HD) was observed in a 45-year-old male Melanesian patient from the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The patient had multiple peripheral nerve palsies as a result of tuberculoid leprosy and had been resident in the leprosy ward of Goroka Base Hospital for over 6 years. During this time his HD had remained undiagnosed. This is the first report of HD in the Highlands of New Guinea.
BT - Journal of medical genetics C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6228663?dopt=Abstract DA - 1983 Dec DO - 10.1136/jmg.20.6.412 IS - 6 J2 - J. Med. Genet. LA - eng N2 -Huntington's disease (HD) was observed in a 45-year-old male Melanesian patient from the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. The patient had multiple peripheral nerve palsies as a result of tuberculoid leprosy and had been resident in the leprosy ward of Goroka Base Hospital for over 6 years. During this time his HD had remained undiagnosed. This is the first report of HD in the Highlands of New Guinea.
PY - 1983 SP - 412 EP - 5 T2 - Journal of medical genetics TI - Huntington's disease and leprosy in a New Guinea Highlander. VL - 20 SN - 0022-2593 ER -