Noun
English Wikipedia has an article on:huntingtinWikipedia
huntingtin (countable and uncountable, plural huntingtins)
(biochemistry) A protein whose polymorphism is associated with Huntington's disease.
Expansion of CAG ( cytosine adenine guanine ) triplet repeats in the gene coding for the Huntingtin protein results in an abnormal protein, which gradually damages cells in the brain, through mechanisms that are not fully understood. Source: Internet
The Huntingtin gene provides the genetic information for a protein that is also called "huntingtin". Source: Internet
When the length of this repeated section reaches a certain threshold, it produces an altered form of the protein, called mutant Huntingtin protein (mHTT). Source: Internet