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ReviewJournal of neurology2026

Eye manifestations in Huntington's disease: an update on the potential of ocular biomarkers.

William A Woods, Roger A Barker

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Review in Journal of neurology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

William A WoodsJohn Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB2 0PY, UK. ww350@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8092-0955
Roger A BarkerJohn Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB2 0PY, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8843-7730

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) remains a devastating neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene. Biomarkers are urgently needed to facilitate more accurate evaluation of disease onset, progression, and response to interventions. Characteristic clinical features of the disease are secondary to neuronal dysfunction, and the eye provides a potential window to characterize these changes. In this review, we systematically evaluate clinical studies examining ocular abnormalities in HD, including oculomotor function and retinal anatomy assessed by optical coherence tomography. Findings indicate that while ocular abnormalities can be identified in HD, their clinical utility remains unclear. Further evaluation in large cohorts of gene-positive individuals followed longitudinally is required.

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Eye DiseasesHuntington DiseaseBiomarkersHumansTomography, Optical CoherenceBiomarkersEye-movement abnormalitiesHuntington’s diseaseNeurodegenerationOcular biomarkersOptical coherence tomographyRetinal imaging

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PMID41504917
PMCPMC12783263

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