Usage of mitochondrial D-loop variation to predict risk for Huntington disease.

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Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited autosomal neurodegenerative disease caused by the abnormal expansion of the CAG repeats in the Huntingtin (Htt) gene. It has been proven that mitochondrial dysfunction is contributed to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease. The mitochondrial displacement loop (D-loop) is proven to accumulate mutations at a higher rate than other regions of mtDNA. Thus, we hypothesized...

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