A majority of Huntington's disease patients may be treatable by individualized allele-specific RNA interference.

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Published in Exp Neurol on March 13, 2009

Authors

Maria Stella Lombardi1, Leonie Jaspers, Christine Spronkmans, Cinzia Gellera, Franco Taroni, Emilio Di Maria, Stefano Di Donato, William F Kaemmerer

Author Affiliations

1: Medtronic Bakken Research Center, Corporate Science and Technology, 6229 GW Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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