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Mutant huntingtin fragmentation in immune cells tracks Huntington's disease progression.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Oct 2012
Weiss Andreas, Träger Ulrike, Wild Edward J, Grueninger Stephan, Farmer Ruth, Landles Christian, Scahill Rachael I, Lahiri Nayana, Haider Salman, Macdonald Douglas, Frost Chris, Bates Gillian P, Bilbe Graeme, Kuhn Rainer, Andre Ralph, Tabrizi Sarah J
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal, inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the gene encoding huntingtin (HTT). Therapeutic approaches to lower mutant HTT (mHTT) levels are expected to proceed to human trials, but noninvasive quantification of mHTT is not curren...
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