Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease — A Family Issue

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For the first 33 years of my life, I lived at risk for Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is transmitted in an autosomal dominant fashion: each child of a person with the disease has a 50–50 chance of inheriting the Huntington's gene. Though it may take decades for symptoms to become apparent (Huntington's disease usually strikes insidiously between the ages of 30 and 50), the gene will eventually cause the disease and lead to death after 10 to 15 years of unremitting degeneration.As a child, I discovered the well-kept family secret that my maternal grandfather had lived out his last . . .

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