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The woman who walked into the sea: Huntington’s and the making of a genetic disease

Alice Wexler, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, ISBN: 9780300105025, $30.00, 288 pages

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Harper, P.S. The woman who walked into the sea: Huntington’s and the making of a genetic disease. Hum Genet 125, 111–112 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-008-0594-5

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