HTT and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: For example, amyloid-beta (Aβ) and tau aggregates are present in the brain and plasma of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD); α-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (MSA); mutant huntingtin protein (Htt) in Huntington’s disease (HD); and DNA-binding protein 43 kD (TDP-43) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE).