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ArticleAnnals of clinical and translational neurology2026

Juvenile Huntington Disease With Cerebellar-Predominant Atrophy Identified by Genome Sequencing.

Enrique Gonzalez Saez-Diez, Amy Tam, Siofra Carty, Monica Ferrer Socorro, Kathryn Yang, Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari

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Article in Annals of clinical and translational neurology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Enrique Gonzalez Saez-DiezDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Amy TamDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2072-3436
Siofra CartyDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Monica Ferrer SocorroDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Kathryn YangDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6892-5189
Darius Ebrahimi-FakhariDepartment of Neurology & F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Movement Disorders Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-4714

Funding

Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN) - RDCRCU54NS148312 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MICHAEL E. SHY · 2025 to 2026
$5.0M
NINDS NIH HHS 1U54NS148312NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS148312
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Abstract

Juvenile Huntington disease accounts for a small fraction of Huntington disease cases and is driven by the largest trinucleotide repeat expansions. We describe a 6-year-old boy with progressive global regression, generalized dystonia, and epilepsy, in whom serial imaging showed striking cerebellar-predominant atrophy with an initially normal-appearing striatum. Extensive metabolic testing, exome sequencing, and an ataxia repeat expansion panel were nondiagnostic. Research genome sequencing identified a large pathogenic huntingtin CAG repeat expansion that confirmatory testing sized beyond 180 repeats. This case illustrates a cerebellar-predominant imaging signature of extreme repeat expansions and the limitations of exome sequencing for detecting them.

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cerebellar atrophydystoniagenome sequencingjuvenile Huntington diseasepediatric movement disorderstrinucleotide repeat expansion

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PMID42865012
PMCPMC13658954

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