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To: muawiyah
It's autosomal dominant in Mendelian genetics.

There is a 50% (1 in 2) chance at each pregnancy that a child of an affected parent will receive the gene for Huntington disease.

16 posted on 07/14/2012 2:29:44 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem
Yeah, you're right ~ a 'dominant' ~ my bad.

interesting that it can now be treated!

17 posted on 07/14/2012 2:36:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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