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A BARBEAU

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PubMed1965

FINGERPRINT PATTERNS IN HUNTINGTON'S CHOREA AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE.

In the course of a continuing search for means of predicting Huntington's chorea before the onset of neurological symptoms, a study of fingerprint patterns was undertaken, using the technique employed by Hodges and Simon in the investigation of patients with Wilson's disease. Fingerprint patterns of 61 patients with Huntington's chorea and 50 with Parkinson's disease were compared with norms established by Scotland Yard. Although an increased incidence of the "whorl" pattern was seen in the left second and third fingers in patients with Huntington's chorea, this finding could not be interpreted as having diagnostic or prognostic value as it was found also in some normal subjects and in occasional cases of Parkinson's disease. The pattern supposedly characteristic of Wilson's disease was also seen in persons with Huntington's chorea.

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PubMed1962

Origin and migration of Huntington's chorea in Canada: preliminary report.

This preliminary report is part of a fullscale investigation of Huntington's chorea throughout the world. Data were obtained on some 820 possible cases of Huntington's chorea in Canada, and they were of sufficient quality in 633 cases to enable pedigrees to be drawn up of 104 families. The origin of 75 of these families was traced outside Canada. It was found that 55 of these kinships originally came from the British Isles, contrary to the prevalent feeling that incriminated United States sources. Only 57 of the 633 cases had moved from their first province of residence at the time of reporting. Thus, large and frequent migrations are not the rule, in the Canadian group, as had been previously reported by other authors.

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