Definition of "huntingtin" [huntingtin]

• A protein whose polymorphism is associated with Huntington's chorea (noun)

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• "The treatment also may make a mutant protein called huntingtin less toxic."
• "In Huntington's, this CAG repeat occurs in a gene called huntingtin, and in Machado-Joseph, it occurs in a gene called ataxin-3."
• "HD is caused by an abnormally lengthy repeating stretch of the amino acid glutamine within a large protein called huntingtin (htt)."