Huntington's Disease

Unfortunately, HD is carried on a dominant gene. If one parent has the gene for HD, and the other does not, the offspring has a 50/50 chance of developing HD. However, if you do NOT inherit the gene for HD, you cannot be a "carrier" of HD. The Huntingtons Disease Society of America has more information at their website. You may also contact me through my message board if you need additional information.

Various drugs may be used to treat Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, as well as other cardiac arrhythmias. The purpose of these drugs is to slow the electrical signals and excitation of heart muscles.

No real way to answer, since there is no way to know how long ANY one person will live. HD DOES shorten your life expectancy, by it varies person to person. For a very few people that have juvenile HD, symptoms appear when they are a few years old, and their lives may be very short. Adults may typically see onset of symptoms in the 30's to 50's, and live about 20 yrs beyond that. My wife has HD, and is 69 years old. No one person, no one answer. See the website for the HD Society of America for more information.

Huntington's disease is an incurable hereditary disease that affect the motor neruons in the brain, causing misfiring and eventually nerve and cell death. Its sufferers beginto get jerky, parkinsons like movement, which in late stages becomes detremental to physical health. Although Huntington's won't directly kill you, sufferers are killed by secondary infections such as pneumonia or get heart attacks as a result of hypertension. Huntington's also causes changes in personality, including depression and dementia. See the link below for information on HD.

Since it is a genetic disease, it only affects people who have at least one parent that had Huntington's. Those people can be any race or sex. It is more common among people with an ancestor from England, since that is where the disease began.

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In Western countries it is estimated that 5 to 7 people per 100,000 have Huntington's disease. There are a few isolated populations in Western Europe where HD is unusually common. Please see the related link below.

Cystic fibrosis is where your lungs and digestive system get clogged up with mucus and you get the effects from birth. People often die from lung complications and lack of nutrients. whereas Huntington's disease effects your muscle coordination and some cognitive functions. The effects generally come out at middle age but can come out before.

Yes, Woody Guthrie died from complications of Huntington's Disease.

Until the physical symptoms become apparent, they will look like anyone else. When symptoms DO become apparent, you might think the person is intoxicated. Clumsy, unsteady walk, jerky movements, slurred speech.

Properly known as Huntington's Disease, it is a fatal genetically transmitted condition that causes deterioration of the central nervous system, including changes in the structure of the nerve cells in the brain (known as spiky neurons). The symptoms are gradual worsening of muscle control, both voluntary and involuntary. Persons may have trouble walking without staggering, lose their balance, stumble, have slurred speech. Impaired ability to swallow is common. The disease also has an emotional component- personality changes that include rapid severe mood swings, irrational angry outbursts, etc. For more information, please visit the website for the Huntington's Disease Society of America.

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The effects of HD on personality can have a significant impact. Those can include depression, sharp mood swings, and irrational angry outbursts. A person with HD may be mistaken for an intoxicated person- unsteady walk, slurred speech, poor balance.

Yep. Go to the website for the Huntington's Disease Society of America for more information.

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There is really only one risk of developing Huntington's Disease- that one of your parents had it. It is a genetically transmitted disease- you inherit it. There is no way to catch HD, or behaviors that make you more likely to get it.

The gene codes for a protein called huntingtin found on the short arm of chromosome 4.

No, it's caused by a single point mutation of a gene.

You could use a Punett Square for Huntington's disease, but why bother? If one parent has the disease, there is a 50% chance that a child will get it. The other factor involved is that with gene therapy advancing so fast, it is possible that it will be possible to replace a single gene in a particular chromosome in a baby born today before that baby reaches 30 years of age. Since Huntington's disease involves one gene on one chromosome, it should not be much of a problem.

Huntington's Disease is an Autosomal Dominant Trait, meaning that only one parent needs to pass the disease for the offspring to inherit it.

There is two answers, it is autosomal dominant showing incomplete dominace

World wide around 8 cases per 100,000 persons are affected by Huntington's Disease. The number varies somewhat because it is genetic.

In the United States, about 1 in every 30,000 people has Huntington's Disease.