The shaky movements of people with Huntington's disease are caused by death of a specific group of nerve cells. One culprit — the mutant huntingtin protein — is well known. Another has now been discovered.
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Mattson, M. Accomplices to neuronal death. Nature 415, 377–378 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415377a
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