and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and ... of the brain to break down and die. The genetic mutation linked to Huntington’s has long ...

mutating the genetic code and ultimately rendering viral genes useless. But in the case of people with Huntington's disease, some of these helper proteins may be attacking and destabilizing not ...

Subtle signs of neurodegeneration can be detected in blood, CSF, and neuroimaging, up to 20 years before the motor symptoms ...

is littered with a sort of genetic stutter — repeats of a sequence of three DNA letters: “C-A-G.” A hallmark of Huntington’s disease is that the number of CAG repeats a person has ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to ...

which could help delay or even prevent the disease. Previous genetic studies of Huntington’s, including studies by Vanessa Wheeler and Ricardo Mouro Pinto at Massachusetts General Hospital ...