HD HTT
Disease ID
HD
Gene ID
HTT
Updated
Jun 4, 2025
v2.4.3
v2.4.3
Disease
Name
Huntington disease
Inheritance
Autosomal dominant Description
Locus
Details
Mechanism
GoF/LoF
Alleles
Ref. Motif
CAG
Pathogenic (ref.)
CAG
Pathogenic (gene)
AGC
gnomAD
Pathogenic Genotype (%): % of individuals predicted to be affected based on their genotype
References
Direct supporting references for info on this page.
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Profiling of Short-Tandem-Repeat Disease Alleles in 12,632 Human Whole Genomes.
Haibao,Tang, Ewen F,Kirkness, Christoph,Lippert, William H,Biggs, Martin,Fabani, Ernesto,Guzman, Smriti,Ramakrishnan, Victor,Lavrenko, Boyko,Kakaradov, Claire,Hou, Barry,Hicks, David,Heckerman, Franz J,Och, C Thomas,Caskey, J Craig,Venter, Amalio,Telenti
American journal of human genetics · 2017-11-02
pmid:291000843
Huntington Disease
Nicholas S.,Caron, Galen EB,Wright, Michael R.,Hayden
GeneReviews® · 1993-01-01
genereviews:NBK13054
Expanding the Phenotype of Extremely Early Onset Juvenile Huntington's Disease: A Case Report and Review of Previously Published Cases.
Zöe,Powis, Jonathon,Lutz, Khalida,Liaquat, Jyes A,Querubin, Sat Dev,Batish
American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2024-10-23
pmid:394410745
Huntington's disease: a clinical review.
Raymund A C,Roos
Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2010-12-20
pmid:211719776
Huntingtin CAG repeat size variations below the Huntington's disease threshold: associations with depression, anxiety and basal ganglia structure.
Magdalena,Vater, Nicolas,Rost, Gertrud,Eckstein, Susann,Sauer, Alina,Tontsch, Angelika,Erhardt, Susanne,Lucae, Tanja,Brückl, Thomas,Klopstock, Philipp G,Sämann, Elisabeth B,Binder
European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024-11-21
pmid:395727707
Comprehensive genetic diagnosis of tandem repeat expansion disorders with programmable targeted nanopore sequencing.
Igor,Stevanovski, Sanjog R,Chintalaphani, Hasindu,Gamaarachchi, James M,Ferguson, Sandy S,Pineda, Carolin K,Scriba, Michel,Tchan, Victor,Fung, Karl,Ng, Andrea,Cortese, Henry,Houlden, Carol,Dobson-Stone, Lauren,Fitzpatrick, Glenda,Halliday, Gianina,Ravenscroft, Mark R,Davis, Nigel G,Laing, Avi,Fellner, Marina,Kennerson, Kishore R,Kumar, Ira W,Deveson
Science advances · 2022-03-04
pmid:352451108
Estimating the probability of de novo HD cases from transmissions of expanded penetrant CAG alleles in the Huntington disease gene from male carriers of high normal alleles (27-35 CAG).
Audrey E,Hendricks, Jeanne C,Latourelle, Kathryn L,Lunetta, L Adrienne,Cupples, Vanessa,Wheeler, Marcy E,MacDonald, James F,Gusella, Richard H,Myers
American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2009-07-01
pmid:195072589
Huntington's Disease: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Strategies.
Maria,Jimenez-Sanchez, Floriana,Licitra, Benjamin R,Underwood, David C,Rubinsztein
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2017-07-05
pmid:2794060210
A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes. The Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group.
Cell · 1993-03-26
pmid:8458085Additional 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)
Accurate Quantification of Mutant and Wild-Type polyQ Proteins Using Simple Western Capillary Immunoassays.
Bas,Röttgering, Janwillem,Testerink, Rudie,Weij, Chantal,Beekman, Nicole,Datson
Molecular neurobiology · 2025-05-31
pmid:40450087Preserved Thermoregulation in Huntington's Disease: Insights from an Observational Case-Control Study.
Lucía,Simón-Vicente, Jéssica,Rivadeneyra-Posadas, María,Soto-Célix, Javier,Raya-González, Alejandro,Rodríguez-Fernández, Daniel,Castillo-Alvira, Fernando,Vázquez, Esther,Cubo
Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025-05-29
pmid:40443124A Strategy Potentially Suitable for Combined Preimplantation Genetic Testing of Aneuploidy and Monogenic Disease That Permits Direct Detection of Pathogenic Variants Including Repeat Expansions and Gene Deletions.
Vivienne J,Tan, Ying,Liang, Arnold S,Tan, Simin,Wong, Nur,Asherah, Pengyian,Chua, Caroline G,Lee, Mahesh A,Choolani, Truong,Dang, Samuel S,Chong
International journal of molecular sciences · 2025-05-09
pmid:40429681Modelling Population Genetic Screening in Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Thomas P,Spargo, Alfredo,Iacoangeli, Mina,Ryten, Francesca,Forzano, Neil,Pearce, Ammar,Al-Chalabi
Biomedicines · 2025-04-23
pmid:40426848Base editing of trinucleotide repeats that cause Huntington's disease and Friedreich's ataxia reduces somatic repeat expansions in patient cells and in mice.
Zaneta,Matuszek, Mandana,Arbab, Maheswaran,Kesavan, Alvin,Hsu, Jennie C L,Roy, Jing,Zhao, Tian,Yu, Ben,Weisburd, Gregory A,Newby, Neil J,Doherty, Muzhou,Wu, Shota,Shibata, Ana,Cristian, Y Allen,Tao, Liam G,Fearnley, Melanie,Bahlo, Heidi L,Rehm, Jun,Xie, Guangping,Gao, Ricardo,Mouro Pinto, David R,Liu
Nature genetics · 2025-05-26
pmid:40419681A genome-wide approach for the discovery of novel repeat expansion disorders in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network cohort.
Sarah,Fazal, Harriet,Dashnow, Maike F,Dohrn, Jacquelyn,Raposo, Laurel,Hiatt, Matt C,Danzi, Isaac R L,Xu, Camilo,Toro, David R,Adams, Karen,Usdin, Bruce,Hayward, Shilpa Nadimpalli,Kobren, Shamil R,Sunyaev, Rebecca C,Spillmann, Vandana,Shashi, Adriana,Rebelo, Guney,Bademci, Mustafa,Tekin, Aaron R,Quinlan, Stephan,Züchner
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2025-05-22
pmid:40417743Genetic variants of SLC6A4 and risk of coronary artery disease: insights from North Indian population.
Jyotdeep Kour,Raina, Minakashee,Sharma, Ravi,Sharma, Rohit,Bhardwaj, Parvinder,Kumar, Santasree,Banerjee, Rakesh Kumar,Panjaliya
Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025-05-14
pmid:40369544Interventionally targeting somatic CAG expansions can be a rapid disease-modifying therapeutic avenue: Preclinical evidence.
Terence,Gall-Duncan, Sangyoon Y,Ko, Isabelle K,Quick, Mahreen,Khan, Kristie,Feng, Chase P,Kelley, Annabelle,Coleman, Alexiane,Touze, Shuqian,Tang, Mustafa,Mehkary, Katsuyuki,Yokoi, Casey R,Herrington, Justin,You, Scott C,Lambie, Tanya K,Prasolava, Gagan B,Panigrahi, Jeehye,Park, Kazuhiko,Nakatani, Lauren M,Byrne, Peixiang,Wang, John S,Schneekloth, Masayuki,Nakamori, Paul W,Frankland, Eric T,Wang, Christopher E,Pearson
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025-04-28
pmid:40330856Huntingtin inclusion bodies have distinct immunophenotypes and ubiquitination profiles in the Huntington's disease human cerebral cortex.
Molly E V,Swanson, Adelie Y S,Tan, Lynette J,Tippett, Clinton P,Turner, Maurice A,Curtis, Emma L,Scotter, Hilal A,Lashuel, Mike,Dragunow, Richard L M,Faull, Helen C,Murray, Malvindar K,Singh-Bains
Scientific reports · 2025-05-03
pmid:40319093