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Protein aggregates in Huntington's disease.
Experimental neurology - 1 Nov 2012
Arrasate Montserrat, Finkbeiner Steven
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease characterized by abnormal motor movements, personality changes, and early death. HD is caused by a mutation in the IT-15 gene that expands abnormally the number of CAG nucleotide repeats. As a result, the translated protein huntingtin contains disease-causing expansions of glutamines (polyQ) that make it prone to misfold and aggregate. While the...
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