Silencing mutant Huntingtin by RNA interference for the treatment of Huntington Disease

Huntington Disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurological disease attributed to a CAG expansion within the HD gene. The HD mutation gives rise to a polyglutamine expansion in exon 1 of the protein huntingtin (Htt). Since the discovery of the HD mutation in 1993, various HD gene mouse models hav...

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Main Author: Wagner, Laura A.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/937