Huntington's Disease Marco Lagos
- Huntington's Disease (HD), is the timely progressive break down of the nerve cells in the brain. This genetic disease worsens a person's physical and mental abilities during some of the most important years of their lives.
- Today HD is known as a typical family genetic disease because every child of a parent with HD has a 50% chance of getting the disease.
- There are roughly 30,000 people in American with the disease, and 200,000 people worldwide who suffer from this genetic disease.
- The symptoms of the disease differ from family to family, but the three stages are generally the same.
- The first stage is usually a failure of your coordination, involuntary movement.
- The middle stage is typically when you have trouble speaking and swallowing, ordinary activities will become more difficult.
- In the last stage, you become completely dependent on other people to care for you. Choking becomes normal, and wont be able to speak or walk at all.
- In the research for this topic, I learned a lot on how the gene for HD is passed on and it really helped me further understand a pedigree. I can also better understand how non-sex-linked diseases are passed on in families
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