Huntington’s Disease gene is found (1993)

As a result, “all the work we’ve done in the lab since discovering the myotonic dystrophy gene turns out to be very relevant to Huntington’s disease,” Professor Housman told MIT Tech Talk. SIMILARITIES TO MYOTONIC DYSTROPHYAt an MIT press conference, Professor Housman noted that the repeating nucleotide sequence of the defective Huntington’s gene “is very familiar to my lab.” UNIQUE TECHNIQUEOne of MIT’s most important contributions to the discovery of the Huntington’s gene is a new genetic tool developed in the labs of Professor Housman and Professor Phillip A. Sharp, head of the Department of Biology.

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