Description:
HUNTINGTON DISEASE; HD
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Repository
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NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository
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| Subcollection |
Venezuelan Huntington Disease
Heritable Diseases |
| Class |
Disorders of the Nervous System |
| Class |
Disorders with Trinucleotide Expansions |
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Cell Type
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Fibroblast
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Transformant
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Untransformed
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Race
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White
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Family Member
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10
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Relation to Proband
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maternal first cousin
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Confirmation
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Clinical summary/Case history
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Species
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Homo sapiens
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Common Name
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Human
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Remarks
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| Passage Frozen |
3 |
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| IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIES OF ORIGIN |
Species of Origin Confirmed by Nucleoside Phosphorylase Isoenzyme Electrophoresis |
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| Remarks |
Code 456; clinically unaffected; last exam 3/81; mother is GM04773; father had HD; affected brother is GM04807A; see GM04804A Lymphoid |
| Sumbilla C, Lakowicz JR, Evidence for normal fibroblast cell membranes from individuals with Huntington's disease. A fluorescence probe study. J Neurol Sci62:23-40 1983 |
| PubMed ID: 6230415 |
| Passage Frozen |
3 |
| Split Ratio |
1:3 |
| Temperature |
37 C |
| Percent CO2 |
5% |
| Medium |
Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium with Earle's salts and non-essential amino acids with 2mM L-glutamine or equivalent |
| Serum |
15% fetal bovine serum Not inactivated |
| Substrate |
None specified |
| Subcultivation Method |
trypsin-EDTA |
| Supplement |
- |
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