Huntington's+Disease-Rachel+Glazer

By: Rachel Glazer Huntington’s disease is a dominant disease. Mike is married to Molly. Mike has Huntington’s disease but molly does not. All the kids, Charlie, Jack and Susan have the disease too. Charlie is married to Bella and she does not have the disease. Jack is married to Emma who does not have the disease and Susan is married to Pat whose genotype is HH. Charlie and Bella have three kids, Shelia, May, and Dan. Shelia and Dan have the disease. May does not have the disease and neither does her husband Bob. Shelia’s husbands named David and he doesn’t have Huntington’s disease. Jack and Emma have two children named Beth and Tanner. Both kids are normal. Susan and Pat have three kids, Sam, Taylor, and Julia. All three girls have Huntington’s disease. David and Shelia have two girls named Hannah and Jacqui, neither of them have Huntington’s disease.

__Huntington’s diseas ____e __ Huntington’s disease is a dominant disease. Meaning everyone who will inherit the disease will eventually get it. Huntington’s disease is a disease that one in every 30,000 people inherits. There is a 50% chance that if you have the disease that your children will inherit it to. Huntington’s disease is a disease that mainly affects the brain’s basal Ganglia.



This is the central nervous system in the brain. The disease could also affect ones liver. When we interviewed Claire Riley, 45 year old women who has Huntington’s disease, she had very poor memory, lack of coordination, and could barley eat, walk or speak. Because Claire could barely speak we had to talk to her aid Danielle Marra, she said, “I have to dress Claire every day and I have to help Claire swallow her own food when she eats. Claire is always depressed and has very bad anxiety.” Could this disease ever be cured? Doctors say that nothing can cure it but they can give the patient medicine to help with the anxiety, and depression. Many patients with the disease go to physical speech therapy to improve their speech and social skills. This disease was first discovered by George Huntington. The disease actually was already know of and some people had it but know body really knew what it was caused by or what it was. Huntington always had an interest in medicine and when he was 22 the year before he graduated Medicine school. He wrote a paper describing the disease and what he had discovered. He described the disease and what it did and how it affected the people. George Huntington was the first person to discover the main cure to the disease therefore the disease was named after George Huntington.

-Rachel Glazer