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Nature Genetics  35, 13 - 14 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ng0903-13

An expanded role for wild-type huntingtin in neuronal transcription

Leslie Michels Thompson

The author is in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4260, USA. lmthomps@uci.edu

Huntington disease is caused by a polyglutamine repeat expansion in the huntingtin protein. A new study highlights an important role for the normal protein in neuronal transcriptional regulation.

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