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Huntington's disease

NOUN
  1. hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia

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  • But the severity of even a fully penetrant condition like Huntington's disease seems to depend on not just genetic factors like the number of DNA repeats in the mutation but epigenetic factors like the sex of the parent who transmitted the mutation (Ridley et al. 1991). The Human Genome Project
  • Diagnostic genetic testing refers to the use of a gene test in a patient who has symptoms suggestive of Huntington's disease, with or without a family history.
  • Predictive genetic testing is currently used mainly for untreatable conditions, such as Huntington's disease, or prenatal detection of serious genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis.
  • Difficulties with word usage are rare in persons with Huntington's disease, as are frank aphasia or impairments in semantic memory.
  • The cognitive disorder in Huntington's disease is considered a ‘subcortical’ syndrome and usually lacks features such as aphasia, amnesia, or agnosia that are associated with dementia of the Aizheimer's type.
  • These so-called monogenic conditions — diseases like hemochromatosis (where the body absorbs too much iron) or Huntington's disease — are easy to research, because the associations are pretty much binary. 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
  • It is possible to do a genetic test on an unborn baby early in pregnancy, if one of the parents carries the Huntington's disease.
  • The marmoset is a key model organism used in neurobiological studies of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.
  • Persons with Huntington's disease have even been accused of being drunk due to their sluggish speech articulation.
  • If my mother had just had Huntington's disease diagnosed my request for a prognostic test would be unlikely to be turned down on the basis that the disease is untreatable.
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