Polyglutamine-Expanded Human Huntingtin Transgenes Induce Degeneration of Drosophila Photoreceptor Neurons

A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes

Marcy E. MacDonald · Cell · 1993 · 8.3K citations · Full text

Genome Instability, Novel Gene, Genetic Disorder +10

Exon 1 of the HD Gene with an Expanded CAG Repeat Is Sufficient to Cause a Progressive Neurological Phenotype in Transgenic Mice

Laura Mangiarini, Kirupa Sathasivam, Mary J. Seller et al. · Cell · 1996 · 3.1K citations · Full text

Knockout Mouse, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Developmental Biology +9

Aggregation of Huntingtin in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusions and Dystrophic Neurites in Brain

Marian DiFiglia, Ellen Sapp, Kathryn Chase et al. · Science · 1997 · 2.9K citations

Formation of Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusions Underlies the Neurological Dysfunction in Mice Transgenic for the HD Mutation

Stephen W. Davies, Mark Turmaine, Barbara A. Cozens et al. · Cell · 1997 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Expansion of an unstable trinucleotide CAG repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1

Harry T. Orr, Ming‐Yi Chung, Sandro Banfi et al. · Nature Genetics · 1993 · 1.6K citations

Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Molecular Biology +6