New research shows that the mutation is, surprisingly, harmless for decades. But it quietly grows into a larger mutation — ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough in our understanding of Huntington's disease. This genetic disorder has long been ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time.