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  • Huntington's Disease Society and Culture
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Huntington’s disease is an incurable genetic disorder that is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. A diagnosis of Huntington’s disease can be very distressing for a patient and their family to...
  • Huntington's Disease Prognosis
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Huntington’s disease is caused by a mutation that occurs in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, which is located on chromosome 4. The mutation exists as an expansion mutation of the trinucelotide...
  • Huntington's Disease Diagnosis
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    A diagnosis of Huntington’s disease is suspected based on the appearance of specific symptoms. In most cases, these symptoms appear around middle age, when a person is between 35 and 45 years of age.
  • Huntington's Disease Genetics
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    All humans possess two alleles for the Huntingtin (HTT) gene. This gene provides instructions for making the protein huntingtin (Htt). Part of the HTT gene contains repeats of the trinucelotide...
  • What is Huntington's Disease?
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Huntington’s disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that affects muscle coordination and cognitive function. Symptoms of the disease usually start to develop around middle age. Huntington’s...
  • Huntington's Disease Symptoms
    Health - 26 Feb 2019
    Huntington's disease is a genetic condition that affects certain nerve cells in the brain and causes brain damage. This can lead to disorders in movement, cognition and behavior. Although symptoms of...
  • CIRM announces funding for UCI researchers to develop new treatment for Huntington’s disease
    News - 5 Feb 2019
    Following a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Independent Citizens Oversight Committee meeting held last week, University of California, Irvine researchers learned they will receive $6...
  • New guidelines developed for effective management of neuropsychiatric symptoms of Huntington’s disease
    News - 30 Jan 2019
    Although Huntington's disease (HD) is traditionally thought of as a neurological disorder, behavioral symptoms are a common feature and frequently cause distress and difficulty to patients, family...
  • New method to speed up genetic diagnosis of Huntington’s disease
    News - 10 Jan 2019
    Elongated segments of DNA cause Huntington's disease and certain other disorders of the brain. Researchers funded by the SNSF have developed a method to determine the length of the mutated genes...
  • New mechanism may explain neurons shrinking in Huntington's disease
    News - 25 Dec 2018
    A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's is the progressive death of nerve cells in the brain. The cells don't die quickly, though. They first start to disconnect from each other...

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