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. 2004 Mar 1;101(10):3498–3503. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308679101

Table 1. Venezuelan HD kindred statistics.

Numbers of kindreds by size
Number of individuals Number of kindreds Number of individuals, sibships, and relative pairs
Total number of individuals in Venezuelan HD kindreds 18,149
14,761 1 Male 9,162
200–600 3 Female 8,256
100–200 9 Unknown gender 731
51–99 17 Living 15,409
10–50 20 Immortalized lymphocyte lines 4,384
4–9 7 HD genotype completed 3,989
3 26 Heterozygotes (≥40 CAGs) 938
Variably penetrant alleles (35–39 CAGs) 80
Homozygotes 18
Completely penetrant alleles (≥40 CAGs on both chromosomes) 15
Compound alleles (≥40 CAGs on one chromosome; 35–39 CAGs on other chromosome) 3
Founders 3,783
Nonfounders 12,626
Unconnected singletons 134
Sibships 4,502
Pairs
Sibling 26,330
Parent-offspring 25,252
Grandparental 33,534
Avuncular 97,870
Half-sibling 8,181
Cousin 180,494