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's disease: a clinical review

P McColgan, SJ Tabrizi - European journal of neurology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fully penetrant neurodegenerative disease caused by a
dominantly inherited CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene on …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease

DK Wilton, K Mastro, MD Heller, FW Gergits… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

Brain imaging before and after COVID-19 in UK Biobank

G Douaud, S Lee, F Alfaro-Almagro, C Arthofer… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
There is strong evidence for brain-related pathologies in COVID-19, some of which could be
a consequence of viral neurotropism, or of neuroinflammation following viral infection. Most …

Therapies targeting DNA and RNA in Huntington's disease

EJ Wild, SJ Tabrizi - The Lancet Neurology, 2017 - thelancet.com
No disease-slowing treatment exists for Huntington's disease, but its monogenic inheritance
makes it an appealing candidate for the development of therapies targeting processes close …

Predictors of phenotypic progression and disease onset in premanifest and early-stage Huntington's disease in the TRACK-HD study: analysis of 36-month …

SJ Tabrizi, RI Scahill, G Owen, A Durr… - The Lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background TRACK-HD is a multinational prospective observational study of Huntington's
disease (HD) that examines clinical and biological findings of disease progression in …

Identification of genetic variants associated with Huntington's disease progression: a genome-wide association study

DJH Moss, AF Pardiñas, D Langbehn, K Lo… - The Lancet …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Huntington's disease is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin
gene, HTT. Age at onset has been used as a quantitative phenotype in genetic analysis …

Biological and clinical characteristics of gene carriers far from predicted onset in the Huntington's disease Young Adult Study (HD-YAS): a cross-sectional analysis

RI Scahill, P Zeun, K Osborne-Crowley… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Disease-modifying treatments are in development for Huntington's disease;
crucial to their success is to identify a timepoint in a patient's life when there is a measurable …

Huntington disease

GP Bates, R Dorsey, JF Gusella, MR Hayden… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2015 - nature.com
Huntington disease is devastating to patients and their families—with autosomal dominant
inheritance, onset typically in the prime of adult life, progressive course, and a combination …

[HTML][HTML] Resting-state connectivity in neurodegenerative disorders: Is there potential for an imaging biomarker?

C Hohenfeld, CJ Werner, K Reetz - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Biomarkers in whichever modality are tremendously important in diagnosing of disease,
tracking disease progression and clinical trials. This applies in particular for disorders with a …