Less than a month after researchers unveiled that a “ticking DNA clock” is behind Huntington’s disease (HD), scientists have ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who ...

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that is usually fatal about 15 to 20 years after a patient is diagnosed. It is known ... | Genetics And Genomics ...

Huntington’s disease is horrible. It is also odd. Illnesses caused by inherited aberrant genes are mostly what geneticists call “recessive”, meaning someone must receive defective versions ...

The field of Huntington’s disease research has been undergoing a radical reshaping of how the brain-ravaging disease — and what drives it — is understood. After decades focused on the notion ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been known to be caused by mutations in the huntingtin gene, which leads to the ...

BOSTON — 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 ...

This type of “somatic expansion” occurs in only the specific types of brain cells that later die in Huntington’s disease. Only once a cell's DNA expansion reaches a threshold number of CAGs ...

The team found that although functions such as movement, thinking or behavior remained normal for a long time before the onset of symptoms in Huntington's disease, subtle changes to the brain were ...