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Huntington disease

Disease Summary
Associated Targets (34)
Tbio

16

Tchem

10

Tclin

8


GARD Rare
Mondo Description Huntington disease (HD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by unwanted choreatic movements, behavioral and psychiatric disturbances and dementia.
Uniprot Description A neurodegenerative disorder characterized by involuntary movements (chorea), general motor impairment, psychiatric disorders and dementia. Onset of the disease occurs usually in the third or fourth decade of life. Onset and clinical course depend on the degree of poly-Gln repeat expansion, longer expansions resulting in earlier onset and more severe clinical manifestations. Neuropathology of Huntington disease displays a distinctive pattern with loss of neurons, especially in the caudate and putamen.
Disease Ontology Description A neurodegenerative disease that has material basis in autosomal dominant inheritance and is characterized by unwanted choreatic movements, behavioral and psychiatric disturbances and dementia and has material basis in expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutamine) resulting in neuron degeneration affecting muscle coordination, cognitive abilities.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0007739:  Huntington disease
COHD:374341: 
GARD:0006677: 
ICD9:333.4: 
NCIT:C82342: 
Orphanet:399: 
SCTID:58756001: 
UMLS:C0020179: