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 E-Mail IMAGE: From left to right: Mercè Masana, Ana Gámez-Valero, Eulàlia Martí, Anna Guisado-Corcoll, Esther Pérez-Navarro and Maria Solaguren-Beascoa. view more  Credit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Huntington s disease is caused by a mutation in the Huntingtin gene (HTT), which appears in adults and features motor, cognitive and psychiatric alterations. The origin of this disease has been associated with the anomalous functioning of the mutated protein: mHTT, but recent data showed the involvement of other molecular mechanisms. A new study conducted by the University of Barcelona has identified a type of ribonucleic acid (RNA) as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of the disease. These are the small RNA, or sRNAs, molecules that do not code proteins but have important functions in the regulation of gene expression. According to the study, sRNAs would take part in the development of the disease, results that shed light on the design of new specific dr

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