Chromosome 4

One famous victim of Huntington's Disease was Michael J. Fox. He developed Huntington's Disease when he was only a child. He is now ...

The average age for death is 49 (men) and 50 (women). Usually people start seeing symptoms at 40. If you do then you usually only have 10 ye...

Huntington's Disease is caused by a genetic mutation on chromosome 4. They can tell if you have it by if you have a CAG repeat. In a nor...

Huntington's Disease is an inherited disease which breaks down the nerve cells in your brain. This usually forms physical and mental dis...

Although there is not a known cure for Huntington's Disease, there is a treatment. The treatment is meant to slow down the disease and l...

Doctors try to perform genetic linking mapping, to test for HD. Genetic linking mapping is the isolating of the gene that could possibly hav...