Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...
New genetic research shows why some people develop deadly Huntington's disease earlier than others. The findings could lead to better treatments.
Published in Cell, the study titled, “Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” ...
HD is a rare, adult-onset, autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disease. George Huntington (Figure 1) was the first person to provide a comprehensive description of adult-onset HD in ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger ...
Tourette syndrome, Huntington disease and other choreas, myoclonus, restless legs syndrome, tardive dyskinesia, stereotypies, paroxysmal dyskinesias, ataxia and other disorders of movement or ...
Huntington's disease is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an autosomal dominant mutation. The hallmark symptom of Huntington's disease is the presence of progressive chorea ...