HD HTT
Disease ID
HD
Gene ID
HTT
Updated
Feb 5, 2025
v2.2.1
v2.2.1
Disease
Name
Huntington disease
Inheritance
Autosomal dominant Description
Locus
Details
Mechanism
GoF/LoF
Alleles
Ref. Motif
CAG
Pathogenic (ref.)
CAG
Pathogenic (gene)
AGC
gnomAD
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
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Comparisons of neurodegenerative disease biomarkers across different biological fluids from patients with Huntington's disease.
Alison R,Bamford, Georgia M,Parkin, Jody,Corey-Bloom, Elizabeth A,Thomas
Journal of neurology · 2025-01-23
pmid:39849121Somatic CAG repeat expansion in blood associates with biomarkers of neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease decades before clinical motor diagnosis.
Rachael I,Scahill, Mena,Farag, Michael J,Murphy, Nicola Z,Hobbs, Michela,Leocadi, Christelle,Langley, Harry,Knights, Marc,Ciosi, Kate,Fayer, Mitsuko,Nakajima, Olivia,Thackeray, Johan,Gobom, John,Rönnholm, Sophia,Weiner, Yara R,Hassan, Nehaa K P,Ponraj, Carlos,Estevez-Fraga, Christopher S,Parker, Ian B,Malone, Harpreet,Hyare, Jeffrey D,Long, Amanda,Heslegrave, Cristina,Sampaio, Hui,Zhang, Trevor W,Robbins, Henrik,Zetterberg, Edward J,Wild, Geraint,Rees, James B,Rowe, Barbara J,Sahakian, Darren G,Monckton, Douglas R,Langbehn, Sarah J,Tabrizi
Nature medicine · 2025-01-17
pmid:39825149Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease.
Robert E,Handsaker, Seva,Kashin, Nora M,Reed, Steven,Tan, Won-Seok,Lee, Tara M,McDonald, Kiely,Morris, Nolan,Kamitaki, Christopher D,Mullally, Neda R,Morakabati, Melissa,Goldman, Gabriel,Lind, Rhea,Kohli, Elisabeth,Lawton, Marina,Hogan, Kiku,Ichihara, Sabina,Berretta, Steven A,McCarroll
Cell · 2025-01-16
pmid:39824182Total functioning capacity scale in Huntington's disease: natural course over time.
K F,van der Zwaan, S,Feleus, O M,Dekkers, R A C,Roos, S T,de Bot
Journal of neurology · 2025-01-15
pmid:39812810Genomic characterization of Huntington's disease genetic modifiers informs drug target tractability.
Kevin Lucy,Namuli, Alana N,Slike, Mason A,Hollebeke, Galen E B,Wright
Brain communications · 2025-01-11
pmid:39801710Improving the Robustness of Deep-Learning Models in Predicting Hematoma Expansion from Admission Head CT.
Anh T,Tran, Gaby Abou,Karam, Dorin,Zeevi, Adnan I,Qureshi, Ajay,Malhotra, Shahram,Majidi, Santosh B,Murthy, Soojin,Park, Despina,Kontos, Guido J,Falcone, Kevin N,Sheth, Seyedmehdi,Payabvash
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2025-01-10
pmid:39794133APOBEC3A deaminates CTG hairpin loops to promote fragility and instability of expanded CAG/CTG repeats.
Rebecca E,Brown, Margo,Coxon, Benjamin,Larsen, Maxwell,Allison, Ariana,Chadha, Isabelle,Mittelstadt, Tony M,Mertz, Steven A,Roberts, Catherine H,Freudenreich
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025-01-07
pmid:39772743Evaluation of an Antisense Oligonucleotide Targeting CAG Repeats: A Patient-Customized Therapy Study for Huntington's Disease.
Sergio Adrian,Ocampo-Ortega, Vivany Maydel,Sierra-Sanchez, Citlali Margarita,Blancas-Napoles, Asdrúbal,González-Carteño, Elvia,Mera-Jiménez, Martha Edith,Macías-Pérez, Adriana,Hernandez-Guerra, Rodrigo,Romero-Nava, Fengyang,Huang, Enrique,Hong, Santiago,Villafaña
Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024-12-04
pmid:39768315