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Could huntington's disease have a false positive?
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Not likely: Genetics are autosomal dominant with complete penetrance, and measures a cag trinucleotide repeat of more than 39 repeats, but if 36-39, the test could be indeterminate. A true false positive does not really occur otherwise.
Answered 1/5/2017
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