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SUBMITTER: de Diego-Balaguer R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5033325 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Diego-Balaguer Ruth R Schramm Catherine C Rebeix Isabelle I Dupoux Emmanuel E Durr Alexandra A Brice Alexis A Charles Perrine P Cleret de Langavant Laurent L Youssov Katia K Verny Christophe C Damotte Vincent V Azulay Jean-Philippe JP Goizet Cyril C Simonin Clémence C Tranchant Christine C Maison Patrick P Rialland Amandine A Schmitz David D Jacquemot Charlotte C Fontaine Bertrand B Bachoud-Lévi Anne-Catherine AC
PloS one 20160922 9
Little is known about the genetic factors modulating the progression of Huntington's disease (HD). Dopamine levels are affected in HD and modulate executive functions, the main cognitive disorder of HD. We investigated whether the Val158Met polymorphism of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, which influences dopamine (DA) degradation, affects clinical progression in HD. We carried out a prospective longitudinal multicenter study from 1994 to 2011, on 438 HD gene carriers at different s ...[more]