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 ...

happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ... Study Finds Surprising Way That Genetic Mutation Causes Huntington's Disease, Transforming ...

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

A study published in Nature Medicine reveals subtle neurodegenerative changes in people with Huntington’s disease gene expansion up to 20 years before symptoms appear. Using advanced imaging, blood ...

Symptoms of Huntington's disease appear late in life. Research reveals how DNA repeats grow toxic over time, explaining the delayed onset and disease variability.

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 to 35 times.

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 ...

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 to 35 times.