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Modulation of age at onset of Huntington disease patients by variations in TP53 and human caspase activated DNase (hCAD) genes.
Neuroscience letters - 10 Feb 2005
Chattopadhyay Biswanath, Baksi Kanad, Mukhopadhyay Saikat, Bhattacharyya Nitai P
Abstract excerpt
Variation of age at onset (AO) in Huntington's disease (HD) cannot be explained by the number of CAG repeats alone in the mutant alleles of the gene huntingtin (Htt). Given the ability of expanded polyglutamine (poly-Q) tract present in Htt protein to interact with other proteins and increased neuronal cell death by apoptosis, variations in the genes coding for htt-interacting proteins and those involved in...
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