A biological classification of Huntington's disease: the Integrated Staging System

SJ Tabrizi, S Schobel, EC Gantman… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The current research paradigm for Huntington's disease is based on participants with overt
clinical phenotypes and does not address its pathophysiology nor the biomarker changes …

Potential disease-modifying therapies for Huntington's disease: lessons learned and future opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, C Estevez-Fraga… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is the most frequent autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder;
however, no disease-modifying interventions are available for patients with this disease. The …

Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

Discovery and implications of polygenicity of common diseases

PM Visscher, L Yengo, NJ Cox, NR Wray - Science, 2021 - science.org
The sequencing of the human genome has allowed the study of the genetic architecture of
common diseases: the number of genomic variants that contribute to risk of disease and …

Cell-type-specific CAG repeat expansions and toxicity of mutant Huntingtin in human striatum and cerebellum

K Mätlik, M Baffuto, L Kus, AL Deshmukh, DA Davis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Brain region-specific degeneration and somatic expansions of the mutant Huntingtin (mHTT)
CAG tract are key features of Huntington's disease (HD). However, the relationships among …

PAM-flexible genome editing with an engineered chimeric Cas9

L Zhao, SRT Koseki, RA Silverstein, N Amrani… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR enzymes require a defined protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) flanking a guide RNA-
programmed target site, limiting their sequence accessibility for robust genome editing …

Antisense oligonucleotide therapy: from design to the Huntington disease clinic

ME Rook, AL Southwell - BioDrugs, 2022 - Springer
Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by an
inherited mutation in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which encodes mutant HTT protein. Though …

Protein interaction networks in neurodegenerative diseases: From physiological function to aggregation

G Calabrese, C Molzahn, T Mayor - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
The accumulation of protein inclusions is linked to many neurodegenerative diseases that
typically develop in older individuals, due to a combination of genetic and environmental …

Gelation of cytoplasmic expanded CAG RNA repeats suppresses global protein synthesis

Y Pan, J Lu, X Feng, S Lu, Y Yang, G Yang… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA molecules with the expanded CAG repeat (eCAGr) may undergo sol–gel phase
transitions, but the functional impact of RNA gelation is completely unknown. Here, we …

Exome sequencing of individuals with Huntington's disease implicates FAN1 nuclease activity in slowing CAG expansion and disease onset

B McAllister, J Donaldson, CS Binda, S Powell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The age at onset of motor symptoms in Huntington's disease (HD) is driven by HTT CAG
repeat length but modified by other genes. In this study, we used exome sequencing of 683 …