HD HTT

Disease ID
HD
Gene ID
HTT
Updated
Jun 4, 2025
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Disease

Name
Huntington disease
Inheritance
Autosomal dominant
Description
Prevalence
1 10,000
Age of Onset(Typical)Years1  8535  44
Age of Onset Details
Typical: 35-443 ; Range: 1-854,5 .

Locus

Details
Mechanism
GoF/LoF
Year
199310
Location in Gene
Exon 1
Gene Strand

Alleles

Ref. Motif
CAG
Pathogenic (ref.)
CAG
Pathogenic (gene)
AGC
BenignIntermediatePathogenicUnits6  2627  3940  250

gnomAD

Pathogenic Genotype (%)Admixed AmericanAfrican/African AmericanAmishAshkenazi JewishEuropean (non Finnish)FinnishMiddle EasternSouth AsianEast AsianOthers01234567HTT

Pathogenic Genotype (%): % of individuals predicted to be affected based on their genotype

References

Direct supporting references for info on this page.

1
Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)
mondo:0007739
2
American journal of human genetics · 2017-11-02
pmid:29100084
3
Huntington Disease
GeneReviews® · 1993-01-01
genereviews:NBK1305
4
American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2024-10-23
pmid:39441074
5
Raymund A C,Roos
Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2010-12-20
pmid:21171977
6
European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024-11-21
pmid:39572770
7
Science advances · 2022-03-04
pmid:35245110
8
American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2009-07-01
pmid:19507258
9
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2017-07-05
pmid:27940602
10
Cell · 1993-03-26
pmid:8458085

Additional Literature

Additional literature related to this locus.

Raw PubMed search results
(All PubMed results returned by searching for this gene, tandem repeats, and disease, in medline format)

Molecular neurobiology · 2025-05-31
pmid:40450087
Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025-05-29
pmid:40443124
International journal of molecular sciences · 2025-05-09
pmid:40429681
Biomedicines · 2025-04-23
pmid:40426848
Nature genetics · 2025-05-26
pmid:40419681
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025-05-22
pmid:40417743
Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025-05-14
pmid:40369544
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025-04-28
pmid:40330856
Scientific reports · 2025-05-03
pmid:40319093