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- noun biochemistry A
protein whosepolymorphism is associated withHuntington's chorea
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The treatment also may make a mutant protein called huntingtin less toxic.
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In Huntington's, this CAG repeat occurs in a gene called huntingtin, and in Machado-Joseph, it occurs in a gene called ataxin-3.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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HD is caused by an abnormally lengthy repeating stretch of the amino acid glutamine within a large protein called huntingtin (htt).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In Huntington's, this CAG repeat occurs in a gene called huntingtin, and in Machado-Joseph, it occurs in a gene called ataxin-3.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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HD is caused by an abnormally lengthy repeating stretch of the amino acid glutamine within a large protein called huntingtin (htt).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In Huntington's, this CAG repeat occurs in a gene called huntingtin, and in Machado-Joseph, it occurs in a gene called ataxin-3.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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HD is caused by an abnormally lengthy repeating stretch of the amino acid glutamine within a large protein called huntingtin (htt).
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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In Huntington's, this CAG repeat occurs in a gene called huntingtin, and in Machado-Joseph, it occurs in a gene called ataxin-3.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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HD is caused by an abnormally lengthy repeating stretch of the amino acid glutamine within a large protein called huntingtin (htt).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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People who suffer from Huntington’s disease (such as 1930s folk singer Woody Guthrie) have many extra copies of a particular three-nucleotide segment (C-A-G) in the gene for a protein called huntingtin.4 Like deletions, insertions can range from just one letter to many.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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