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Huntington’s disease
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It is a brain disorder that affects a persons ability to think, talk, and move. Huntington’s disease destroys cells in the basal ganglia that is a part of the brain that controls movement, emotion, and memory. It is caused by change in a gene on chromosome 4. People with this disease have an abnormally high number of CAG triplets approximately 40 or more. This disrupts the function of the genes protein that becomes toxic which causes death.

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Huntington’s disease is inherited in an chromosome with normal copy of gene which means everyone that inherits this faulty gene will eventually get the disease. A parent with Huntington’s disease gene has a 50% chance of passing the disease to their children.


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Symptom’s of hd disease are poor memory, depression, and


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