Abstract
Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by onset in adult life of progressive involuntary choreiform movements, and dementia (1). Though others had previously recognized the disorder, it only received widespread attention after a comprehensive description was published by George Huntington in 1872 (2). Huntington, a physician on Long Island, not only provided an excellent clinical summary of the movement disorder, but, because his patients in East Hampton were the progeny of similarly affected individuals previously treated by his father and grandfather, he also noted the inherited nature of the disease. For some of these families, the disease has been traced to ancestors who immigrated from Bures, England, landing in New England in 1649 (3,4).
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Gusella, J.F. (1991). Huntington’s Disease. In: Harris, H., Hirschhorn, K. (eds) Advances in Human Genetics. Advances in Human Genetics, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5958-6_3
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