Huntington's Disease Research Reports

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All of the HDlighthouse articles that were posted over the last few years can be found here. If there is an older HDlighthouse page that you cannot find but would like us to try to locate and set up on the new site please let us know and we'll be happy to chase it down. Just send an email to SteveI@hdlf.org.

Goodbye control groups?

Ann Covalt, M.A. and Malcolm Casale, Ph.D., Fri, 10/13/2006

A revolutionary new statistical method could allow all study participants to take the therapeutic agents themselves ? no one would have to take a placebo.

CAG Counts: Intermediate alleles

Marsha Miller Ph.D., Sat, 09/16/2006

It has been awhile since a review of CAG counts in Huntington's Disease was published, so the new article by Dr. Michael Hayden and colleagues is very helpful. The normal, intermediate, and reduced penetrance ranges have changed over time and there have also been errors in publications. The authors present the most current information in the table below.

CAG Counts: Intermediate alleles

Marsha L. Miller, Ph.D., Fri, 09/15/2006

It has been awhile since a review of CAG counts in Huntington's Disease was published, so the new article by Dr. Michael Hayden and colleagues is very helpful. Here's a review of the latest informatio