It is an especially relevant question for many living with Huntington’s Disease (HD). Notably, some studies have shown that ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

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 ...

University of Bergen researcher Markus Miettinen is among the first scientists to provide a detailed description of protein clumps associated with Huntington's disease. The findings, which could ...

Huntington's symptoms -- which include involuntary ... sequence -- CAG -- is repeated at least 40 times. In people without the disease, this sequence is repeated just 15-35 times.

even though the majority of people inherit variants of HTT with 15 to 30 consecutive CAG repeats and never acquire Huntington's disease. A cluster of the huntingtin protein, which is excessively ...

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

HD is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder affecting five to ten in 100,000 people and caused by ... driving the neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” Tabrizi said.

Huntington's disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition affecting movement, thinking and behaviour. It is a genetic disease and people with an affected parent have a 50% chance of ...

People genetically susceptible to Huntington’s disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time. The cause is related to expansion of repeating DNA units ...

Suffering in Huntington’s Disease What is it that makes Huntington ... I go out with my friends and make new ones. I love people, and I explore paths that seem to beckon me.