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Huntington’s Disease. By Dustin Frye. How it’s Transmitted. Huntington’s Disease is a genetic disease. If a parent has it and has a child with someone who doesn’t have the disease there is a 50% chance that the child will have it. Symptoms.
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Huntington’s Disease By Dustin Frye
How it’s Transmitted • Huntington’s Disease is a genetic disease. If a parent has it and has a child with someone who doesn’t have the disease there is a 50% chance that the child will have it.
Symptoms • In the early stages there are changes in personality, cognition and physical skills, physical symptoms are usually the first to be noticed because of uncontrollable movements called chorea. • Everyone with Huntington’s Disease eventually shows the same symptoms but the speed of progression and extent of the disease varies significantly between individuals. • Cognitive abilities are impaired progressively. • There is also a probably of memory loss of long term and short term.
Area of Nervous System Affected • The Huntington’s Disease affects the brain.
Who is Usually Affected • People from western Europe are usually affected by it the most. • People from Asia and Africa are affected by it the least.
Prognosis • The speed of progression and extent of the disease varies on the number of repeats of the HTT gene to the mutated mHTT gene. The estimated time of life after the disease is noticed is usually 20 years. • The disease isn’t fatal but the disease causes heart problems, pneumonia. • 27% try to commit suicide
