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Huntington's disease is a dominant genetic disease. That means that a person will develop the disorder if they receive one copy of the gene from an affected parent - so children with a parent who has Huntington's have a 50% chance of inheriting the gene and developing the disease. If children don't inherit the gene, however; they cannot pass it on to their own children. The chain of inheritance is broken.
Huntington's disease typically doesn't appear until the patient is between 30 and 50 years of age. Men and women are equally affected by the disease, and it crosses all racial and ethnic boundaries.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoNot really. It is far more common in caucasians than non-whites, but that is more because of its history than its present. People of any race are at-risk if they have a parent who has the disease.
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∙ 13y agoIt affects half the children of parents that have Huntington's. It is a genetic disease, and is inherited. While there is a concentration of cases in Great Britain and Venezuela, it could affect people that live anywhere. There IS a rather rare form known as Juvenile Huntington's, but the symptoms do not usually appear until after age 30.
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∙ 12y agoEuropean and the countries with people from it , such as Australia and united states.
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∙ 12y agoHD is not a sex or race linked disease- it crosses all boundaries of sex and race.
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∙ 11y agoIt can effect ANY race- any sex. However, it is an inherited disease, and seems to have originated in England, so the people that have HD are usually a descendant from someone in England.
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