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Huntington's Chorea
Huntington's disease
Chorea
A lack of protein does not cause an eating disorder. Instead, that can cause anemia.
He didn't "discover" it, but he was the first to publish an accurate description of the disease that now bears his name. He was the son of a physician, and then himself becamse a physician, who had the opportunity to observe several generations of people with the disease, which allwed him to draw conclusions about inheritance as well as symptoms.
Chorea is an old name for Huntington's Disease. It is genetically transmitted from parent to child. The only way to get HD is to inherit the gene that causes it from one of your parents that also had HD.
Dalon Huntington's birth name is Dalon L. Huntington.
Tod Huntington's birth name is Tod Warren Huntington.
Wright Huntington's birth name is John Huntington Silliman.
Huntington Hartford's birth name is George Huntington Hartford II.
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huntington's Disease was first recognised as an inherited disorder in 1872 when a 22-year-old American doctor, George Huntington, wrote a paper called On Chorea. His paper was later published in the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia and the disorder he described became known as Huntington's Chorea.