Must genetic knowledge be passed on to blood relatives? The
patient may be the best judge. There is an ethical duty to warn relatives. As a last resort, health professionals also
have a duty to warn.
A study to determine to what extent the direct assessment
of CAG repeat length has allowed the diagnoses of additional patients, with atypical psychiatric or neurological disease,
or those without a family history, that could otherwise not be diagnosed using traditional criteria. |
Research article reports findings where 24.1% of people testing in the
UK since the discovery of the gene did not have a family history of HD. Incluses discussion on this topic by members of Hunt-Dis/viewer
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When What We Know Outstrips What We Can Do -Anne and Meghan face a tentative future. Members of
families with a history of Huntington's disease have long known that this neurological disorder-with its loss of motor control,
personality changes, depression, dementia, and death-might eventually be their fate.
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