Huntingtin and the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease
β Scribed by Landles, Christian; Bates, Gillian P.
- Book ID
- 110032604
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1469-221X
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## Abstract Huntington's disease is one of the several neurodegenerative diseases caused by dominant mutations that expand the number of glutamine codons within an existing polyβglutamine (polyQ) repeat sequence of a gene. An expanded polyQ sequence in the huntingtin gene is known to cause the hunt
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease striking principally medium spiny GABAergic neurons of the caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia. It affects about one in 10,000 individuals and is transmitted in an autosomal dominant fashion. The molecular basis of the disease is