Huntingtin

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Huntingtin

A protein of unknown function encoded by the HD gene. The repeated CAG sequence in a defective HD gene causes the body to produce an abnormal form of huntingtin. It is not yet known why the abnormal form of huntingtin affects only certain regions of the brain.

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Huntington Disease			Huntington's disease is a hereditary condition caused by a mutated huntingtin gene that creates a misfolded, and therefore dysfunctional, protein. Potential treatment for Huntington's disease found by Asian News International Ultrastructural studies of brains of HD transgenic mice revealed neuronal intranuclear inclusion that contained aggregated huntingtin protein with granular or fibrillar morphology. Review: structure of amyloid fibril in diseases by Ghahghaei, Arezou; Faridi, Nasim / Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE) Scientists identified a mutant form of the protein huntingtin as the culprit in Huntington's disease in 1993. Lab tests find Huntington's protein may have crony in killing brain ... by Saey, Tina Hesman / Science News			Hungarian kuvasz Hungarian Pointer Hungarian puli Hungarian vizsla Hungarian wirehaired vizsla Hungate roll tube method hunger hunger contractions hunger pain Hungry Bones Syndrome hungry rice Hunner's ulcer Hunt syndrome Hunt's neuralgia Hunt's syndrome Huntaway Hunter Hunter burr Hunter Syndrome Hunter's canal Hunter's glossitis Hunter's syndrome Hunter-Gatherer Hunter-Gatherer Diet Hunting Phenomenon Huntingtin Huntington Disease Huntington's chorea Huntington's disease huperzina A huperzine A Hurler syndrome Hurler's syndrome hurloid facies Hurricane Hurried Child Syndrome Hurry Sickness hurt Hurter and Driffield curve Hurthle cell Hürthle cell Hürthle cell adenoma Hurthle cell carcinoma Hürthle cell carcinoma Hurthle cell tumor Hürthle cell tumor HUS husband-coached birth husband-coached childbirth husbandry husk			Huntingdon Beekeepers Association Huntingdon College Huntingdon County Huntingdon County Business and Industry Huntingdon County Career and Technology Center Huntingdon County Conservation District Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau Huntingdon County, PA Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Huntingdon elm Huntingdon Grammar School Huntingdon Life Sciences Huntingdon Male Voice Choir Huntingdon Real Estate Investment Trust Huntingdon Valley Chess Society Juniors Huntingdon willow Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, 3d earl of Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon-Bedford-Fulton Area Agency on Aging Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Huntingdonshire Business Against Crime Huntingdonshire Family History Society Huntingtin Huntingtin Associated Protein Interacting Protein Huntingtin protein Huntingtin-Associated Protein 1 Huntingtin-Associated Protein-1 Huntingtin-Interacting Protein 1 Huntington Huntington Huntington / Ashland, WV, USA - Tri-State Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity Huntington Area Rapid Transit Huntington Artificial Kidney Center Huntington Bankshares Huntington Beach Huntington Beach Huntington Beach Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts Huntington Beach Art Center Huntington Beach Bad Boy Huntington Beach Church of Religious Science Huntington Beach City School District Huntington Beach Concert Band Huntington Beach Conference and Visitors Bureau Huntington Beach Fire Department Huntington Beach High School Huntington Beach Historical Society Huntington Beach Library Huntington Beach Police Department

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