Huntington's+Disorder

Huntington's Disorder Inheritiance Huntington's disease is inherited by Autosomal Dominant Inheritance. This means that it is carried in the body cells. When eggs or sperm are produced one chromosome of the body cell will be pasted on to the sex cells. Since it is a dominant disease it only takes one infected cell when the child is concieved to give the child the disease.

Inheritiance Activity: [] Symptons of the disease This disease doesnt become present until the infect person is in their 30s/40s, this is a reason that the disease is passed on because many of the parents have already produced until the have knowledge they have the disease. This disease is a one that attacks the brain below is a diagram of it. 

Symptons
 * Mood swings
 * Depression
 * Trouble driving, learning new things, remebering facts, or making decisions

After Progressed  Treatment Huntington's disease is not a cureable disease. The have developed ways to treat the symptons of the disease however. The Food and Drug Administration approved tetrabenazine to treat Huntington's chorea, which are the involuntary movements. This made it the first drug approved for treating the disease in the United States in August of 2008. The are reasearching a cure for the disease using electronic and other technologies enabling scientists to see how defective genes affect the brain and the body's chemistry and metabolism.
 * Concentration on intellectual tasks become increasingly difficult
 * Feeding oneself and swallowing becomes more difficult

Monkeys are being genetically engineered to study the disease.

Globally there are 7 out of 100,000 people diagnosed with Huntington's

Famous Case: Woody Guthrie who is best know as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician who had Huntington's disease and was a leader in the folk movement and has been inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Huntingtons Documentary Link: []  <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,128); text-align: left;">Bibliography: [] [] []

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