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Differential distribution of the normal and mutated forms of huntingtin in the human brain.
Annals of neurology - 1 Nov 1997
Gourfinkel-An I, Cancel G, Trottier Y, Devys D, Tora L, Lutz Y, Imbert G, Saudou F, Stevanin G, Agid Y, Brice A, Mandel J L, Hirsch E C
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease is an inherited disorder caused by expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in the IT15 gene, which leads to expansion of a polyglutamine tract within the protein called huntingtin. Despite the characterization of the IT15 gene and the mutation involved in the disease, the normal function of huntingtin and the effects of the mutation on its function and on its neuronal location remain unknown....
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