Huntington's disease, which affects about 30,000 Americans ... disease seem perfectly normal early in life. Except in the very rare case of childhood onset, it is impossible to tell who will ...

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 ...

Huntington's Disease Gene Also Enhances Early Brain Development ... potential cause of the genetic mutations that result in rare neurodegenerative ... Drug Significantly Reduces Chorea Symptoms ...

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

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 ...

Opens in a new tab or window Cerebrospinal fluid analysis revealed elevated neurofilament light protein and proenkephalin levels 23 years before clinical diagnosis of Huntington's disease.

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 study of nerve cells affected by Huntington’s disease (HD) reveals that the disease-causing gene slowly expands over time but doesn't start causing harm until it hits a toxic threshold ...

The size of the reduction was also dose-dependent. Huntington’s disease is a rare, devastating neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects motor function and causes severe cognitive decline ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...