New genetic research shows why some people develop deadly Huntington's disease earlier than others. The findings could lead ...

About 2,000 people in Australia are affected by Huntington's disease, a fatal and incurable condition that affects the ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ For decades it's been one of the defining mysteries of Huntington's disease. Why does the terrible devastation of mind and body start earlier in some people who ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Huntington's disease is a hereditary disorder caused by a genetic mutation in the HTT gene, leading to progressive brain cell ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Studies of living participants and postmortem brains confirm that gene expansion is a promising target for HD prevention ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

Huntington’s disease is a devastating neurodegenerative condition affecting movement, thinking and behaviour. It is a genetic disease and people with an affected parent have a 50% chance of ...

They focused on the Huntington’s mutation, which involves a stretch of DNA in a particular gene where a three-letter sequence - CAG - is repeated at least 40 times. In people without the disease this ...