INTRODUCTION
Huntington’ disease (HD) is a hereditary, adult-onset, progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of nerve cells in the basal ganglia. It is well-known as a quintessential family disease due to the 50/50 probability for a child of a parent with HD of inheriting the disease. Today, there is approximately ~30, 000 symptomatic Americans and more than 200,000 American at-risk of developing the disease (1, 2). The purpose of this paper is to discuss and summarized…
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