Early life functional advantage coupled with accelerated aging: The case for antagonistic pleiotropy in Huntington's disease

Early life functional advantage coupled with accelerated aging: The case for antagonistic pleiotropy in Huntington's disease - https://t.co/lHX7fdNgUO

Children carrying the Huntington’s gene mutation show increased cortical volume and superior cognitive performance early in life. The enlarged cortical regions have dense glutamatergic projections to the striatum, which later shows accelerated degenerati……