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Decades of DNA expansion linked to Huntington’s disease neurodegeneration
A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...
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DNA repeat expansion drives Huntington’s development
Studies of living participants and postmortem brains confirm that gene expansion is a promising target for HD prevention ...
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Huntington's Disease: The Discovery of the Huntingtin Gene
This played a key role in mapping the HD gene (Gusella et al., 1983). Although researchers had discovered that the G8 DNA probe was likely to correspond to a polymorphic chromosomal region located ...
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New findings shed light on cause of Huntington's disease progression
A new study of nerve cells affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that the disease-causing gene slowly expands over ...