Help on Huntington's Chorea

[David G. Kitaguchi]

In article o3q at muss.CIS.McMaster.CA,  u9415136 at muss.cis.McMaster.CA (P. Pandya) writes:
>Hello.  I am currently researching Huntington's Chorea as part of my 
>studies.  I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I would 
>greatly appreciate some help as to where to look for information 
>regarding this disease.  Things which I am looking for specifically are 
>gene sequences, pedigree trees, and 1st-2nd year level explainations of the 
>disease.  Any method of internet information retrieval (ie. email, FTP) 
>is fine.
>Thank you all for your time and help.
>Paresh Pandya
>u9415136 at muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
>



Hello Paresh,

This place is as good as any to ask.  Depending on what you are looking for,
I would recommend a possible search starting with OMIM (Online Mendelian
Inheritance in Man).  The URL for your search would be:

	"http://gdbwww.gdb.org/omim-bin/omim/bin/omimx?143100"

Proving you have access to WWW.  OMIM in general would be:

	"http://gdbwww.gdb.org/" 

then choose "OMIM -- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man"

In anycase you can start from the GDB Homepage, use OMIM to look up
Huntington's Chorea, and from the bottom of the OMIM document you can then
follow it to GDB (The Genome Data Base).  There you will find information
about locus "LD" on 4p16.3.  The information will be of probes, citations,
mutations, polymorphisms, DNAseq numbers (GenBank numbers), and even
mammalian homology information.  These can all be followed to greater and 
greater details of desquences, and contacts and so on.  If you have any
questions about this or any of the methods involved in doing searches
like this, feel free to contact me at "help at gdb.org" for more information.
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