1983). After determining that the HD gene is located on chromosome 4, the members of the Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group (HDCRG) joined forces and spent the next 10 years working ...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the gene called huntingtin on chromosome 4. HD is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, so that each ...

The data were analyzed for linkage to the Huntington's disease gene using the program LIPED with a correction for the late age of onset. Because of the high frequency of the Huntington's disease ...

Huntington's disease is one of the most common inherited ... but its function in yeast remains unknown. Moreover, although 4 of the 6 mismatch repair genes are associated with cancer in human ...

Huntington's disease is a rare genetic, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease, caused by CAG repeat expansions in the ...

Thom Graves Media While genome sequencing may be the new kid on the block--perhaps now with a cracking voice and fuzzy facial hair--predicting phenotypes is the stuff of classical genetics ... such as ...