Huntingtons+WG

Huntingtons disease also known as (HD), is a disorder that affects a persons ability to use their brain. It also affects their ablility to think, move, and talk. it just basically shuts down all motor skills. This disease is caused by the cells in the Basal Ganglia that are destroyed. The Basal Ganglia controls cognitive ability, emotion, and movement. There is something called a CAG triplet, and it is a DNA sequence found in the disease. people with HD usually have an abnormal amount of CAG triplets, they repeat around 40 more times than normal and normal is 10-26 CAG triplets.

If you are wondering how people inherit it, the answer is found in a DNA patterns. This picture below is an example of a mutated gene. You just need one copy to inherit the trait, and it is considered dominant when inherited. The little red space is the HD gene, and though its just a little copy, it still is as deadly. Most people start to se symptoms of the disease between the ages of 30 and 50. There are some that get it earlier than that, but it is just a recent estimate. For the doctor to diagnose women they retrieve fetal cells from the placenta. When a child is born they run a series of test that would determine if the child got the mutated gene. the cost common test is called a neurological test. It can diagnose the child but it is enable to predict the age when the person will start felling the disease.

Speech therapy is something that help with a persons normal life. It helps them still have a chance to communicate with people. There are also some prescribed pills that people take to help with anxiety and depression.