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Selective neurodegeneration, neuropathology and symptom profiles in Huntington's disease.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2012
Waldvogel Henry J, Thu Doris, Hogg Virginia, Tippett Lynette, Faull Richard L M
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by a CAG repeat expansion in exon 1 of the Huntington gene (HD) also known as IT15. Despite the disease being caused by dysfunction ofa single gene, expressed as an expanded polyglutamine in the huntingtin protein, there is a major variability in the symptom profile of patients with Huntington's disease as well as great...
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