September 01, 2026
Atlas of the brain’s striatum could guide researchers to new drug treatments
… gene that carries too many repetitive DNA segments, called CAG repeats. The researchers found that dorsal populations … and MSH3, which play a role in increasing the number of CAG repeats found in the huntingtin gene. As more of those … ventral striatum was more resistant to the accumulation of CAG repeats. Further study of this class of cells might help …

