It is an especially relevant question for many living with Huntington’s Disease (HD). Notably, some studies have shown that ...

2024 — The Huntington's disease (HD) mutation eventually causes a fatal brain disease in adulthood, but a new study finds that early in life, children with the HD mutation have bigger brains and ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

HD is a rare, adult-onset, autosomal dominant, progressive neurodegenerative disease. George Huntington (Figure ... the gene was believed to be located. Children of a parent with HD have a 50% ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

At first, researchers believed that the number of CAG repeats only rose as the HTT gene was inherited; a child of a parent with Huntington's disease may experience the disorder earlier in life.

Subtle signs of neurodegeneration can be detected in blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and through neuroimaging, up to two decades before motor symptoms in Huntington’s disease (HD) present ...

Researchers from the Huntington's Disease Center, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and UK DRI at UCL have taken major ...

The Kerry woman led a respected GP into filling out a form in 2020 saying she had been already diagnosed with the disease and ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the ...

Less than a month after researchers unveiled that a “ticking DNA clock” is behind Huntington’s disease (HD), scientists have ...

The Madison Re-Prom is returning to the Monona Terrace this February for its 13th year. The annual gala brings grown ups back to prom to raise funds for a cure for Huntington’s Disease (HD), the fatal ...