Article
Huntington's Disease: Relationship Between Phenotype and Genotype.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Jan 2017
Sun Yi-Min, Zhang Yan-Bin, Wu Zhi-Ying
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disease with the typical manifestations of involuntary movements, psychiatric and behavior disorders, and cognitive impairment. It is caused by the dynamic mutation in CAG triplet repeat number in exon 1 of huntingtin (HTT) gene. The symptoms of HD especially the age at onset are related to the genetic characteristics, both the CAG...
Topics
- Animals
- Genotype
- Humans
- Huntingtin Protein
- Huntington Disease
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion
