M W Faragher, W T Choi, H E MacLean, G L Warne, J D Zajac
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Abstract
Kennedy's disease is a form of progressive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy of adult onset. This paper describes a case of Kennedy's disease and discusses the laboratory diagnosis and the underlying genetic mechanism. Three other neurological diseases, Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy and fragile X syndrome, which have similar genetic defects, are also discussed.