Huntington disease among the Navajo: A population-based study in the Navajo Nation

Affiliations

¹ From the Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center (P.H.G.), Shiprock, NM, and Office of Public Health Support (M.L.B.), Rockville, MD; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (J.M.M.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (J.E.C., A.S.R.), Albuquerque. paul.gordon@ihs.gov.
² From the Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center (P.H.G.), Shiprock, NM, and Office of Public Health Support (M.L.B.), Rockville, MD; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (J.M.M.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (J.E.C., A.S.R.), Albuquerque.

Paul H Gordon et al. Neurology. 2016.

. 2016 Apr 19;86(16):1552-3.

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002486. Epub 2016 Feb 19.

¹ From the Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center (P.H.G.), Shiprock, NM, and Office of Public Health Support (M.L.B.), Rockville, MD; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (J.M.M.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (J.E.C., A.S.R.), Albuquerque. paul.gordon@ihs.gov.
² From the Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center (P.H.G.), Shiprock, NM, and Office of Public Health Support (M.L.B.), Rockville, MD; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (J.M.M.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (J.E.C., A.S.R.), Albuquerque.

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