The Inverse Comorbidity between Oncological Diseases and Huntington Disease:Review of Epidemiological and Biological Evidences

The simultaneous development of several diseases (comorbidity, syntropy) in particular patients is a common phenomenon in modern clinical practice. However, the results of recent epidemiological studies have pointed to the new phenomenon of inverse comorbidity (or dystropy)—that means that some diseases can occur together in one person more rarely than in other people according to frequencies of these disorders in the population as a whole. Such dystropic (inversely comorbid) diseases are Huntington’s disease and oncological ones. In this paper, we perform a review of existing information supporting the hypothesis of the oncoprotection in carriers of HTT mutation, also including features of interactions of genes and proteins in such processes as autophagy and apoptosis.

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