Two Ethnic Clusters with Huntington Disease in Israel: The Case of Mountain Jews and Karaites.

CONCLUSION: We detected clustering of HD among the population treated at our Medical Center, which has the only specialized HD clinic in the country, with a high percentage of HD among 2 relatively small subpopulations of Jews: Mountain Jews and Karaites.
PMID: 28848105 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neuro-Degenerative Diseases - August 25, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Zitser J, Thaler A, Inbar N, Gad A, Faust-Socher A, Paleacu D, Anca-Herschkovitch M, Balash Y, Shabtai H, Ash EL, Merkin L, Manor Y, Kestenbaum M, Bar David A, Peretz C, Naiman T, Bar-Shira A, Orr-Urtreger A, Dangoor N, Giladi N, Gurevich T Tags: Neurodegener Dis Source Type: research