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Huntington's Disease |
Huntington disease; Huntington//'s chorea; Huntington//'s disease; Progressive Chorea, Chronic Hereditary (Huntington) |
Huntington's disease (HD, also Huntington disease), formerly known as Huntington's chorea, is a rare inherited genetic disorder characterized by abnormal body movements called chorea, and a reduction of various mental abilities. It takes its name from the Ohio physician George Huntington who described it precisely in 1872. Huntington's disease is caused by a rare trinucleotide repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene. Huntington's disease shows a variable age of onset of physical symptoms, ...
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Huntington's Disease Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Library of Medicine
- We Move
- American Academy of Neurology http://www.aan.com/
- American Speech-Language Hearing Association http://www.asha.org/
- National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/
- Dolan DNA Learning Center
- National Institute on Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/
- Dept. of Energy, Human Genome Project
- Huntington's Disease Society of America http://www.hdsa.org/
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, HHS http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Library Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
Resources
- (National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS)
- Chorea Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
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