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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

For many people, the symptoms of Huntington's disease will not begin to show for decades. The genetic disorder is incurable but it is not uncommon for sufferers to reach middle-age before the ...

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