The novel mechanism for genetic mutation in Huntington's disease offers no comfort for neo-Lamarckians, but raises many other questions likely to prove difficult as well as intriguing.
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Maddox, J. Triplet repeat genes raise questions. Nature 368, 685 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/368685a0
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