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

A Reddit user shared that their father's refusal to get tested for Huntington's gene led to their younger brother dying from ...

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

Their children are at risk. Their children are caring for them. It's a relentlessly progressive disease." The most well-known person with Huntington's Disease was singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie ...

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 ...

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.

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In a recent study, beta blockers appeared to significantly lower both the annualized risk for conversion from presymptomatic to symptomatic Huntington’s disease (HD) and the rate of worsening ...

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

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 ...

For one, Huntington’s is often referred to as a "family disease" because of its genetic inheritability. If a parent has HD, each of his or her children has a 50% chance of having it also.