Genetic modifiers of somatic expansion and clinical phenotypes in Huntington's disease highlight shared and tissue-specific effects.

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An inherited, expanded CAG repeat in HTT undergoes further somatic expansion to cause Huntington's disease (HD). To gain insights into this molecular mechanism, we compared genome-wide association studies of somatic expansion in blood and somatic expansion-driven HD clinical phenotypes. Here, we show that somatic expansion is driven by a mismatch repair-related process whose genetic modification and consequences...

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