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View Poll Results: Will Huntington's be eradicated within a few generations?
Yes, most likely 5 16.13%
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Old 12-14-2010, 12:20 PM
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Will Huntington's Disease be largely gone within 2-3 generations?

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I don't know enough. Interesting topic though.
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I don't know a lot about this disorder, but from what I do know it's autosomal dominant... meaning that in theory if no one with Huntington's had children it could be gone fairly quickly. However we have to take into account that not everyone gets tested for the Huntington's gene if they have an affected parent (therefore people may have children before they start showing symptoms). The age of onset also varies. Genetics is a very complicated area, and even though I haven't gone nearly as far into genetics courses as I'm sure many of you have, as far as I know you can never COMPLETELY eradicate a genetic disorder.
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It's not even a real disease, it's all in the mindset. Like depression.
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It's not even a real disease, it's all in the mindset. Like depression.
and it can be cured by vitamin and exercise right?
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It's autosomale dominant, and the age at which the person will devellop the disease depending of QTL ( quantitative trait locus )- the number of repeat of CAG ( cytosin-adenine-guanin) in the huntingdin gene will determin at which age the person gonna have the disease. The more he had repeat, the more it's gonna happen fast.( Althought some others genes may have an importance too) The age at which the person gonna develop the syndrom vary from 10 years old to 70 years old. So the person can reproduce itself and transmit the gene to it's descendance.

NO, it's not gonna be largely gone in 2 or three generation. Sorry I didn't have time to explain with genetics formula to proove my point. It's the end of the semester for everybody I guess
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