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Move the mouse over each member of the family to see how the number of trinucleotide repeats varies in the gene.

Q. How does the repeat size correspond to disease severity?
Q. What is happening to the size of the repeat as you move down the generations?


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Why does the disease increase in severity with successive generations of a family?

> Introduction
> Repeat expansion
> Parental effects
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