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One Huntington variant concentrates very large repeat expansions in the neurons that die
Carriers of the CAG-CCG loss-of-interruption variant start having motor symptoms up to 12.5 years earlier than other Huntington patients. A UBC-led team measured the long expansions in their isolated striatal neurons, and saw no matching signal in blood.
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